When he was eight, his mother took him to The Wall. His father argued he was too young. She told him that she wanted their son to understand their reality.
The next morning, she woke the boy early. She took him past the town and farms and into the rocky hills. The Wall glittered in the sunlight. It stretched as far as he could see in both directions. The top vanished in haze.
“This is our cage,” his mother told him.
It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. He vowed that day he would climb over it.

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