Shields of Power

Preface
You may look at us and question what we are and what we’re doing. What you need to ask us is why. We can not escape who we are, no matter how many times we pull at the strings attached to us, held in the controlling hands of fate. Do you really think that we want to be like this? Do you truly believe that we want our whole lives and hopes for the future to be ruined in the click of a finger? Everything we ever wanted to do, whether it was to do with jobs or families, has to be thrown out of the window and replaced by what they want us to do. We have no future, at least not a future we want. It’s a simple, contained, basic life, where you find no happiness. You’re stuck in the same cycle each and every day. Do you think what we have can ever be used? We are animals trapped in cages, not happy and unable to use our strength and abilities. We never know when our life could end. We never know when our time is up. The sand in the hourglass keeps running low, but we’re blind to how much sand is yet to come. We’re deaf to the beeping of the timer telling us we have five seconds left. We never know that it’s coming. Just that it’s always looming right behind us, watching from behind the glass, waiting to pounce. From the moment we are born, the shadow of death is right by us. The worst part is that it could be our own fault.

Those who can escape… what do you think happens to them?

Do you think all is fine and simple?

 

If so, you couldn’t be more wrong. In our world, you don’t have a choice, at least not a good one.

 

It’s either forget all of your hopes and dreams and live a boring life planned out for you…

Or die.