The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

by Ann Leckie

I’m bigger than anybody else I’ve ever met. Well, except the humans, but, I mean, humans. They’re not exactly people, right? I don’t know what they are.

We have people who watch out for the babies so they don’t get eaten as much.

I mean, once you decide to find out why people die and how to stop it—really truly seriously decide—you can’t let little things like some pain stop you. Otherwise you might just as well have stayed home and died.

Everything alive dies. Everything changes.”