Avenues: Part 1 (Draft)

The coming-of-age story of a newly founded group of friends who suffer the abuses of broken homes. A boy struggles with entertaining the notion of premature death instead of continuing to endure his father's wrath. But when push comes to shove, our protagonist discovers a resolve which swells while under siege. Valuable lessons are learned at great cost, and a king can't handle the threat of three good pawns. Eventually, one of them will become much more dangerous.