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I feel like I’m going insane, crazy, completely and utterly mentally unstable, whatever you want to call it. It all means the same thing, I do not think the same as your average person; I am not of “sound” mind. Who even decided what a sound mind is classified as? It sure as hell wasn’t you or me. Maybe it was you, maybe you are the person that decided I should bare the mark of insanity, but then again you just as easily could be marked as I am.
Okay, well, a pretty powerful declaration to start off with that there...definitely not something that you run into everyday when a character straight up says they've been certified to be insane right at the very beginning of a prologue, but it certainly does make things very interesting here, right off the bat. Then of course there's the rather pointed sounding questions at the end there with the protagonist here questioning the definition of what a sound mind is and who was the one who came up with and decided to mark this person as not having one...that escalates things to a whole other level with the kind of things it makes you think of there. All in all, great start to a prologue here.
You are just a faceless being to me, one that has decided to read my story but none the less faceless. You being so faceless presents a problem to me. You see I want to tell you my story, no, not my “story”, the truth. But how am I to know if I can trust you? Like I said, you could have been the one the marked me with insanity to prevent people from believing me. Or perhaps you already know the truth and you want to hear someone else tell the truth, so you know that you aren’t crazy despite what you get told every day. I grant Them, that after what happened I am probably not quite of sound mind, but I am not insane! I know what happened and I know it to be the truth. I will tell you the truth, the truth that They have spent so much effort into keeping quiet, to the extent that They have committed multiple murders and worse. But I have been quiet my whole life, I lived my live the way I was told to. Not anymore. I will stand up and speak, spread the truth. I will help bring them down. Look down at your left wrist, right where your mark is, the one that states what your life-long career will be. Is that the job you wanted as a child? No? But you believe that you can’t do anything to change that. Because that’s the lie you’ve spent your whole life hearing and believing along with many others. I know now that is a lie, but I was once like you, no more. Let me take you back to the eve of my 18th birthday, waiting excitedly for my career mark to appear. Oh how naive and innocent I was then.
Okay...so well, this definitely explains a lot more of the context here...which definitely indicates there's a whooole lot going on here...it looks like we've got a world where some sort of career mark exists to decide your life and there's secrets...and well, it seems like a pretty unique take on one of those crazy future stories...and I am all for it. It definitely seems to hint at a lot of worldbuilding having gone into it there, especially towards the end of this paragraph here...and it seems like it could be a really intriguing premise here. This does seem like a story that I would read here.
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
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