The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)

by James Islington

“He has made them fear where you come from, what you may mean, what you may be able to do. He has made them so fearful of the unknown, of what may be, they have abandoned what should be.

“It is unpleasant, but this is the world you and I live in, now. Men must be bought or compelled, rather than relied upon to do the right thing.

I have seen what a life without fear can be like, now.

when power is so entrenched, so impossibly distant, blood becomes the only possible currency of change.”