Strange Dogs (The Expanse, #6.5)

by James S.A. Corey

Bright-blue dots like fireflies fluttered and spun in the air as the first of the doglike things came out of the trees.

The detective?

Laconia was only Laconia because they called it that. Before they’d come, it had been nameless. Or if not, the things that had named it were all dead now, so it didn’t matter.

Going away from a point, there were any number of paths, and all of them were right. Going back to the point, most paths were wrong.