The Spider's War (The Dagger and the Coin #5)

by Daniel Abraham

You can’t change a man’s mind when he’s lost the capacity to see he’s wrong.”

Soldiers of the glorious empire or monsters of violence and suffering. So much depended on the story one told about them.

then

than

know

Knew

There was a strange nobility about it. All these people, faced with catastrophe, and running toward it. Any one of them would have been wiser to turn and flee, but instead they came together. By instinct, they would do together what none of them might have managed alone.