Dark Pattern (The Naturalist, #4)

by Andrew Mayne

Pay attention. If something sounds suspicious, ask questions. Don’t ignore it just because everyone else does.

I make mistakes. You make mistakes. Don’t run from them. Seek them out. Correct them.

“You’re the solution,” I reply. “What?” “Saying things. Doing the right thing. Speaking up. Any system can be corrupted as long as people will pretend it’s not their problem.”

But there are almost certainly planets around those stars. Who knows what else is out there? There could be a super-Earth there with a massive ocean and a giant kraken swimming underneath, contemplating their own existence.”

Someone stood here twenty-one thousand years ago and looked up at the sky like we are right now. And they probably asked, ‘What is my place in all this?’ They had to feel so tiny and yet strangely important all at the same time. What is my place in all this? What’s yours?”