The desert had a peculiar way of making the world feel both immense and unbearably small. Beyond the distant mountains lay places he had never seen, lives he had never imagined and possibilities that seemed to exist only beneath the stars.He was still young, caught between the comfort of familiar surroundings and a growing desire to leave them behind. The voices around him spoke of security, responsibility and the sensible choices awaiting his future. He listened, but something had begun to trouble him. The life everyone expected him to live no longer seemed entirely his own.

On those quiet nights, with the desert stretching into darkness, he found himself wondering how far a person could go before the world became unfamiliar. He had no answers, little experience and no certainty that his ambitions would ever amount to anything.

But for the first time, the thought of leaving frightened him less than the possibility of never leaving at all.

Record Sealed.