The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War #1)

by James S.A. Corey

And on the third day, he’d had an experience that changed his life. Between one step and the next, he’d had an epiphany about the vastness and strangeness of the universe and his place in it. The insignificance of one boy on a strange planet in the vastness of galaxies. For a moment, his mind had reached out to the farthest ends of the universe, and he’d felt the weight of his life, his ego, his struggles as less than a feather.