"He stumbled backwards and caught himself with his elbows. The slight pain that shot through his arms was ignored by the fear that crawled from his heart. It chilled his chest, froze his movements and told him to look into Peter Tamarin's eyes. There was an absolute absence of humanity that only viewed Randal as meat to slaughter to whet an appetite shared by the minds of society, but only acted out by the cancerous tumors of the populace. They were tumors that couldn't be carved out of the world's dying body because they were necessary."