Literature
The Metro Tales: Culmination Part 10
With guards and Vas distracted by the dying legend, my arm acted on its own, the ice from my mind enveloping my heart and steeling it from harm. With my good hand, I pulled the Ashot from its holster and held it steady facing Vas, eyes slowly turning to me.
Outside Khan's home and fighting the mutants of Moscow, I had ignored my bloodlust that seemed to overtake me when the moment stuck, but here it was different. I did not want to see him die, I wanted to see him suffer, to watch this man experience pain unlike this world. Then and only then did I wish him dead.
I close my eyes and took a breath, it was barely a moment but it lasted foreve