Execution (Escape from Furnace, #5)

by Alexander Gordon Smith

And I guess that’s why he made the decision he did—not because of his brother, not so that he might live forever, but because when you’re standing on the edge of the void, when you feel yourself about to tumble into the unfathomable, unthinkable darkness of death, you’ll do anything to stop it.

Death, it doesn’t seem so scary, y’know? Not when you’ve got the sky over you and the wind on your face. Rather die a million times out here than once inside Furnace.”