A Few Promises
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My name is Alex Hazel, as assigned by Keons, the Bishop of my District. Like everyone else, I believed it all: that Vialism was the only truth, and that giving up my life was the greatest honour achievable: "to live fully is to sacrifice all".
But since I signed The Pact, the oath to give my life for the honour and glory of Vialism at the next Annual Assemblage, something in me changed... Some unbending desire to know what is outside beyond the Wall grew, and some growing doubt that I could not suppress about Dema and its religion that I was brought up in.
And then I stumbled across a mysterious man with a journal, and learned a myth of underground rebels called "The Banditos" were in fact not a myth at all, and everything I thought I knew was completely shattered.
Now I have 5 days before the the day of my death... And I'm not sure if it's too late.
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Trigger Warnings:
Suicide
Gore
Violence
This deals with extensive talk of suicide. If you feel you are in a sensitive position in regards to this, please do not read.
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