Ember Rising (The Green Ember #3)

by S.D. Smith

“Isn’t that—I don’t know—childish?” “May be. Children can, I think, feel things that grownups can’t.

“But we have found a way,” Mother said, laying a gentle hand on Father’s arm, “to live in this reality without losing our souls.”

I know I help invent things that destroy, but they are aimed at the darkness. And I hope that, when they have blown a hole in that darkness, the light pours in.”

But even a little bit of light meant the world to her in all that darkness.

“I always do everything I can to save and serve every life, no matter how small or inconvenient.”