“More often than not, it was the tiny things — the small, infinitesimal, meaningless choices they made that gave rise to their determined port of call. It was those things they did and to which they never gave a second thought; the minuscule, minor choices they made usually for comfort or joy, but more often than not, out of sheer mean-spiritedness. It was those things that set them down their path.” ~ The Fifth (2021)