I am apprenticed to a monster. Scythe Faraday was right: Someone who enjoys killing should never be a scythe. It goes against everything the founders wanted. If this is what the Scythedom is turning into, someone has to stop it. But it can’t be me. Because I think I’m becoming a monster, too. Rowan looked at what he wrote and carefully, quietly tore the page out, crumpled it, and tossed it into the flames
