The Light of All That Falls (The Licanius Trilogy, #3)

by James Islington

“Listen to me, Tal’kamar!” snarled Caeden, putting every ounce of urgency and emotion and energy he had left into the words. “You are at fault! You and you alone! You shield yourself from what you’ve done, you justify and justify and justify but you know deep down that it is NOT ENOUGH! For all that you’ve been given, you are fearful and weak and cowardly! For all you have lost, you have not learned! It’s not fate and it’s not love and it was never, ever because you thought that you were doing the right thing! You know this! You know this better than—” “ENOUGH!” Tal’kamar screamed, and as Caeden felt the last of his Essence trickle away he could see that the man before him was lost to his anger now. Blinded by a red haze of enraged denial. It didn’t matter. Eventually, he knew, that man would change. Licanius was out of its sheath. Tal’kamar raised it high. Caeden smiled.

my god. what an ending to this series. hats off, Mr. Islington.