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?”

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,”

“Like how we must live for more?”

am Primus, yet I feel so alone.

His words chill me. We make no decision, yet the proposition serves to remind me that he and I are different creatures. Or are we really?