The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

by John Scalzi

because even if they didn’t want to go to a church, they wanted to be somewhere in this teleologically deeply unsettling moment.

Sometimes, even rational people that witness an explainable but powerfully evident phenomenon, they can very quickly stop being rational and take actions that are akin to panic in slow motion,

Szeged,

First mention of this system is misspelled. It is called “Szegred” every other time.

“You have doubted me. Doubt me no longer. You have come to destroy me. I am not destroyed. You have come to burn me. I am the consuming fire. You will feel what it is to burn.

And there’s the titular line, folks. If this emperox ever gets represented as a statue, this will be the chiseled inscription.