"Senses heightened, Nikolai moved like a deadly wraith, carrying three guns and knives in sheathes all over his body. He drifted like a cloud atop a mixture of painkillers and hallucinations, his head full of nails and cotton candy. Thats the only way he could have described it to someone, the discconect between reality and what he saw off and on, as if watching two movies at once and being in both the same time." Pg.225 Chpt.60

"Lit up with drugs, lit up with his affliction, Nikolai reaches the edge of his experience." Pg.238 Chpt.63

"Directly ahead of him, no more than a hundred yards away, through the white noise of the beautiful floating jellyfish, through the hunching wake of huge amoeba, Nikolai saw the Predator surrounded by a golden glow that pierced through the patina of green suffusing his vision in the real world." Pg.239 Cpt.63