The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)

by James Islington

“Everyone has a darker nature, Caeden. Everyone. Good men fear it, and evil men embrace it. Good men are still tempted to do the wrong thing, but they resist those urges. As you did. You have nothing to worry about.”

“Since the Augurs fell…how can you still have faith?” “Because my faith is in El. It was never in the Augurs or what they were once capable of,”

“Such is the way of weak men,” he murmured. “Daring to believe only in what can be seen, touched, and measured.”