Kingdoms of Death (Sun Eater, #4)

by Christopher Ruocchio

Pain, I have said, forms the basis of all morality, for no man who suffers pain doubts that it is evil. No one who experiences pain can even question it.

“The Son of Fortitude!” Pallino snorted, regretted it at once. The man was silent for an instant, and very still, but it was only a prelude to the final stillness settling over his limbs. “I would have gone with you to the end, Had,” he said. “The very end.”