I had no idea how much time elapsed, no idea how much time passed while we just stood there, staring at one another. Even without either of us saying anything, I knew that he was sizing me up, just as I had been doing with him. Both of us were mentally preparing for what was to come—at least that was what I hoped he was doing too, because if he had already come to terms with the fact that one of us was going to walk away from the others’ dead body, then there was something seriously wrong with him.
But as I started to think about it more, I realised that he should have already come to terms with it long ago. After all, it was him who had made the decision to come here, him who had made the choice to attack this pack without any rightful reason to do so, all under the pretence that I woul
