The Archive of the Forgotten (Hell's Library #2)

by A.J. Hackwith

“They burn them first, the stories. Humans always come for the stories first. It’s their warm-up, before they start burning other humans. It’s their first form of control, to burn the libraries, to burn the books, to burn the archives of a culture. Humans are the stories they tell. If you want to destroy your enemy, destroy their stories. Even if the people survive, it will be as if they never existed at all.”

Hero watched with amusement as Rami attempted to pour a cup the way most men might approach defusing a bomb.