What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

by T. Kingfisher

I’d been tired of it a decade ago. Now I’d moved to some other state entirely. Transcendent exhaustion, perhaps.

His voice had that light veneer of humor that we all get, because if we don’t pretend we’re laughing, we might have to admit just how broken we are.

Mushrooms don’t think. Yes, and the dead don’t move either.