MY CRUEL PROTECTOR
"We’re playing on their board, with their pieces. If we want to save Leo, if we want to save the world... we have to take the war to them."
"You want to go to the stars," Nevan said.
"I want to go to the heart of the design," I replied. "I want to find the Architect who built the Source and show them what a Lane does to a creator who tries to harvest her family."
The "Voice in the Static" had changed the game. The "Vanguard of the Void" was no longer a planetary defense. It was an expeditionary force. We had eighty-six chapters of war behind us, and for the first time, I realized that the "palace" wasn't a home. It was a launching pad.