Chapter 1: “Born in Chains, Died in Freedom”
What is freedom—true freedom?
For most, it is nothing more than an illusion, a carefully curated experience that feels free but never truly demands sacrifice. Comfortable freedom. The kind that comes with conditions, the kind that allows a person to move within invisible boundaries but never beyond them. The kind that does not challenge, does not push, does not cost. The kind that asks nothing more than obedience in exchange for security.
But what about absolute freedom? What would that look like?
Would it be exhilarating or terrifying? Would it be a blessing or a curse? Would it be the ultimate power—or the ultimate isolation?
History remembers few who have dared to seek absolute freedom. To push beyond the boundaries of law, morality, tradition, and even the limits of the self. Most stop when the cost becomes too great, when the risk outweighs the reward. But every so often, someone appears who refuses to accept the limits imposed upon them—someone who will sacrifice anything to break every chain, to prove that nothing, no law, no god, no rule, no fear, has the right to restrain them.
Al was one of those people.
Born into a world that sought to control him before he could even speak, his life became a war between restriction and liberation. From the moment of his birth, he was wrapped in the chains of expectation—of faith, of morality, of social order. The rules were clear: obey, conform, submit.
But what happens when a man refuses to submit?
What happens when the hunger for freedom becomes greater than the fear of consequence?
And, perhaps most importantly—what is the price of breaking every chain?
Because make no mistake, there is a price.
And Al paid it in full.
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