In cold blood

Calvo stared downward in to the dark waters, feeling curiously cold and empty.He was suprised, and a little dismayed, at how easy it had been to end the lives of the two guardswomen.

Hunched against the increasingly freezing wind, he turned and began to climb laboriously up the rock strewn slope, trying to get over the ridge before Tau-Ceti sank below the horizon, and it became even colder....