Ardent Violet and the Infinite Eye (The Starmetal Symphony Book 2)

by Alex White

Humanity will die, not with a bang, but with a committee.

It is ashamed. “Of what?” Of all the times it told itself it was impartial, an outsider to the struggle. “Was it okay before you knew that was wrong? Is a sin more forgivable when committed by a god?”

“You’ve done things that were infinitely wrong.”

“And other things that were infinitely good.”

So, then—in the grand scheme of things— —what was I?

“Alive.”