“You know,” he said, “it amazes me sometimes that we bother to try. With everything they’ve done to us—the deaths, the tortures, the agonies—you’d think that we would give up on things like hope and love. But we don’t. Skaa still fall in love. They still try to have families, and they still struggle. I mean, here we are … fighting Kell’s insane little war, resisting a god we know is going to slaughter us all.”
