All it took was for a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power, and then pay for their innocent choice. - Hugh Howey

Billy Pilgrim wasn't weak, she decided, as he drifted back to sleep — he was broken. The whole system was broken. Sending young men to war, expecting them to come back whole, their bullets to make things right. Expecting a girl from the Big Sky State to step off a bus in LA and have a career that wouldn't kill her. The machinery of it all was set up unfair from the start. Living in three dimensions meant you learned what you needed to know too late in life.

Thank you,” she said, remembering her manners. And then, after some consideration: “I’m sorry I fell asleep.

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.