The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse #9.5)

by James S.A. Corey

“Look,” Nami said. “I don’t need to hear all the ways your father made life harder for you, and I’m not going to explain how living with Saint Anna broke a few things for me.

Nami is Anna’s daughter!

“What scares me, Mose. It isn’t fucking it up and dying. What if we fuck up, but we don’t die. What if we fuck it all up and live? We’re at the end of something, sure. Maybe we’re at the beginning of something too. Maybe we make a whole new world. A whole new planet like Earth used to be. Hundreds of generations. Billions of people, that all start here. And we fuck it up for them.”

Filip as a founding father. He wants to be a good father to a nation.

“Well, it took eighteen hours,” she said after a long pause, “but we lost him. You are now officially a murderer. What? Is that funny?” “I don’t mean to laugh,” Filip said. “There’s some context that makes that… I didn’t mean to laugh.”

Filip has murdered billions of times over.