infinity (book 1)

prologue

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Free will.

Some have called it the greatest gift bestowed on humanity. It is our ability to control what happens to us and exactly how it happens. We are masters of our fate and no one can foist their will on us unless we allow it.

Others say free will is a crap myth. We have a preordained destiny and no matter what we do or how hard we fight it, life will happen to us exactly as it's meant to happen. We are only pawns to a higher power that our meager human brains can't even begin to understand or comprehend.

My best bud, Acheron, once explained it to me like this. Destiny is a freight train rolling along on a set course that only the conductor knows. When we get the railroad crossing in our car, we can choose to stop and wait for the train to pass us by, or try to pull out  in front of it and beat that bad boy across.

that choice is our free will.

If we choose to rush ahead , the car we're in might stall in the tracks. We can then choose to try and start the car or wait for the train to plow us. Or we can get out to run, and fight the destiny of the train slamming into us and killing us where we stand. If we choose to run, our foot could get caught in the tracks or we can slip and fall.

We could even say to ourselves " there is no way I'm dumb enough to fight the train" and hang back to safety.Then the next thing you know a truck rams us from behind trowing us in the train's path. If its our destiny to be hit by the train,we will get hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into hamburger.

I,personally, don't believe in this crap. I say I control my destiny  and my life

No, nothing controls me.

Ever.

I am what I have become because of the interference and secrets of one creature. Had things been done differently, my life would have a whole other enchilada. I would not be where I am today and i would be  have a life worth living instead of the nightmare my life has become.

But no,by keeping his darkest secrets, my best friend betrayed me and turned me into the darkness I have come to embrace. Our fates and destinies were mashed together by a freaks event that happened when i was kid and i curse the day I called Acheron Parthenopaeus my friend.

I am Nick Gautier.

 And this is my life and how things should have been...