Velocity Weapon (The Protectorate, #1)

by Megan E. O'Keefe

“Did you mean to?” Graham asked, startling Biran out of his downward spiral. Biran blinked at him, trying to focus. “Mean to what?” “Make a mistake.” “You can’t plan to make a mistake, Dad.” “Then stop being so hard on yourself, idiot.”

Accidents of geography: setting perfectly ordinary people at one another’s throats since the Stone Age.

Someday he’d like to get used to being wrong. Then maybe he’d start being right.