Empress of Forever

by Max Gladstone

Viv had a way of saying the word interesting that her friends always mocked; when she used that tone she didn’t always mean bullshit, but often. I think you’re wrong, but I’ll give you a chance to save yourself. Or dig yourself in deeper.

Trolley problem time. Do you break one woman’s will, and your own word, to save five lives? Including yours? And maybe the lives of everyone you’ve ever known, depending on what that Rosary bead you’re chasing is, on what it contains? Do you use power when it’s easy, and there, and you need it? No matter what it makes you?