I think this is what it means to be a hero. What point is there otherwise? I can do something about it now. I’m tired of settling for this because I don’t know if something better exists. Shaking in place, afraid of doing something. In Through the Ever Night, Perry said this: “We lose and lose, but we’re still here. I’ll stop them.ĭavid here reminds me of Perry from Under the Never Sky. If we stop helping people because we’re afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Because it’s in the imperfect moments that we find out who we really are. We’re not in this world to live perfect lives. I think we’re familiar with the saying that you wouldn’t know joy if there was no pain, and I think that really makes sense. I figured the world would be pretty boring if all you did was stay the same. You may have an initial opinion, but that can be challenged by the new information you’ll find out once you drop your judgments and actually search for the truth. When you try to learn more about something, you get to see the positive and the negative. You can’t immerse yourself in something without coming to respect it. And he’s willing to go on a quest darker, and more dangerous even, than the fight against Steelheart to find her, and to get his answers. Somehow, he filled that hole with another Epic-Firefight.

A hole where his thirst for vengeance once lived. Because killing Steelheart left a hole in David’s heart. And while entering another city oppressed by a High Epic despot is a gamble, David’s willing to risk it. Ruled by the mysterious High Epic, Regalia, David is sure Babylon Restored will lead him to what he needs to find. And there’s no one in Newcago who can give him the answers he needs.īabylon Restored, the old borough of Manhattan, has possibilities, though. Instead, it only made David realize he has questions. And he died by David’s hand.Įliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life more simple. Yet, Steelheart-invincible, immortal, unconquerable-is dead. They told David it was impossible-that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic.

Firefight by Brandon Sanderson