Prelude To Battle
A woman. I did not know that I could still feel surprise. Apparently it is so. I. I have not thought of myself as I in a hundred years.
This woman makes me uncomfortable. She reminds me of things… What kind of woman would have me now? Would take the reviled creature I have become? Once I could have had any woman I wanted. Before my master came. It was a great gift he gave us, new power, unheard of before. And yet, looking at this woman – I have not been face to face with a human for years beyond count – I realize that I have, indeed, less power now than ever before.
I must kill her quickly. It is better, safer, not to think. Not to remember.