Escala_de_Grises22
In the gardens of an opulent kingdom, an angel lives in chains inside a golden cage, displayed as both miracle and trophy. Asil once descended from Heaven to guide and protect humankind, moved by faith and compassion... and was met with betrayal instead. Since that day, eternity has narrowed into a cruel routine of forced smiles, hollow blessings, and countless gazes that admire his beauty but never see his pain.
Stripped of freedom and purpose, he exists as an object of wonder-worshiped, envied, and consumed-yet utterly alone. The gold that surrounds him gleams like devotion, but it is nothing more than a prison.
Maggie is a traveler. She does not believe in legends, nor in kings who sell miracles for coin. But when whispers of a captive angel reach her ears, curiosity pushes her toward the kingdom. She expects deception, a clever lie crafted to enrich the crown. What she finds instead is far more unsettling.
When she looks up into the cage and meets Asil's golden eyes, she understands that angel or not, what stands before her is a broken life.
Between fleeting visits and words spoken in hushed tones, a fragile bond begins to take shape-quiet, uncertain, and dangerous in a world ruled by greed. Asil struggles against numbness, against the slow erosion of hope, while Maggie is forced to confront a question she cannot ignore: can a single person truly change the fate of someone bound by chains?
And if so... what price must be paid for freedom?
This is a story about faith tested by cruelty, about freedom denied and quietly yearned for, and about the tenderness that endures even within the most beautiful cages-where hope dares to survive, fragile and luminous, against all odds.