"He'd been having off visual hallucinations. Like right now: directly across from him, high lighted by the tree trunk behind it, he saw what looked like a hovering gigantic green-and-gold starfish. He blinked and it was gone."

"His vision had changed, he realized with sudden panic. now he saw the world more and more through a greenish haze, as if filtered through his affliction." pg. 170 Chapter 40

"The claws brushed against his face as gently as a lovers touch and suddenly Nikolai saw not this world but another, the air tight and got in his throat, the patterns of green surrounding him unbearably wrong, and the three moons yellow as wolve's eyes making him squint from their brightness. Reaching for his knives he woke beside Marikova in a hot sweat, shivering, each of the four marks across his face fizzling like the pop rocks she made him try once." pg. 126 Chapter 27