Shadows in Flight (The Shadow Saga Book 5)

Orson Scott Card points out that a “character is what he does, yes—but even more, a character is what he means to do.” In Behold the Dawn, I made a list of the main characters and their various motives for their various actions: Annan wants to die on the battlefield, because he feels the guilt for his crimes is too great a burden to go on carrying.

That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.