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Preface

I once thought I would write a book about life—about lessons learned, about truths that could shape someone else's path. An autobiography, simple in intention: a record of experience turned into meaning.

But the more I searched my own life for moments that could carry weight beyond myself, the clearer it became that I had not yet lived in a way that could justify that ambition. My experiences are mine alone—real, but quiet. Present, but not yet transformed into wisdom.

So I chose another path.

I chose fiction.

A boy, existing within a world that mirrors our own, yet bound to something impossible—something that bends reality, challenges definition, and disturbs the limits of what is considered possible. Through him, I began to explore questions I could not yet answer in my own life: what it means to be human, what responsibility looks like when power removes consequence, and what loneliness becomes when understanding no longer exists between you and the world.

This is not just a story about power. It is a story about becoming. About loss, discovery, failure, and the fragile structure of meaning that holds reality together.

If there is anything to be taken from these pages, I hope it is not certainty, but curiosity. A thought that lingers after the story ends. A question that refuses to stay quiet.

This is my attempt to write beyond experience—into imagination—and in doing so, perhaps reach someone else in a way experience alone could not.

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