“Devourer” snippet

He considered these developments. He had acted on the premise that accepting her unholy offer of venturing where no living soul should go – a strictly passive act on his part – might be viewed as a necessary evil. Permissible by exception, only because the alternative was worse by far. Never had he had the slightest intent to actively partake in that transgression. To do so meant desecrating the very convictions that had been his salvation in this wretched existence!

The Devourer, chapter 19