Senlin Ascends (The Books of Babel, #1)

by Josiah Bancroft

I’d rather be a nothing at the center of everything than a puffed-up somebody at the edge of it all.”

Every important journey I have undertaken has begun the same: with crushed sheets, a balled pillow, flung open books, and not a wink of sleep.

With subjugation comes certainty. Liberty is full of gambles.