This is not the end, of course. Every story we read, every film we watch, continues in our imagination if we allow it. - Hugh Howey

The animal part of his mind wasn’t made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of.

It was amazing to Knox that they all knew, instinctively, how to build implements of pain. It was something even shadows knew how to do at a young age, knowledge somehow dredged up from the brutal depths of their imagination, this ability to deal harm to one another.

But this is where we’re different. You see the future and refuse to change it. Where I come from, we can see the past, but we keep repeating it.