Red Rising

I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.

He is wrong.

None of them will survive.

“No one grasps the game, because no one knows the rules. No one follows the same set of rules. It is like life. Some think honor universal. Some think laws binding. Others know better. But in the end, don’t those who rise by poison die by poison?”

Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us to the Golds, to the Society. Could you imagine it?

In her eyes, I see my heart. In her breath, I hear my soul. She is my land. She is my kin. My love.

I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.

And you think you’re smart, doncha?”

“Just a Red.”

I’d do anything to feed her …

But I am no Gold. I am a Red

now need, as I’ll need at the head of a rebellion, followers, not slaves.
Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.

A hand is like the Society,”