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

by James S.A. Corey

The Carryx see everything that isn’t them as a tool, and I think they throw away anything they can’t use.”

The Carryx are the bones and nerve fibers of the unconscious universe. We are the scaffold and mind that shapes the nature and extent of its deterministic will.

What had been the physical manifestation of a mind became an inanimate object. That was what death meant.