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Unknown location, Hadian

Joseph was past the gate walking casually as if heading towards town as he told the watch guard. Once out of sight he made a sharp turn towards the fishing dock. He thought to himself, "It's late and nobody should be there, right?" A question he asked himself to ease his mind. The distance to the dock was no further than the town he had told the guard. After a twenty minute walk he was at the dock.

Joseph was lucky as nobody was there and there were two boats. "Great, either one would be sea worthy." With a quick glance and examination at both he determined the one favourable to him. He immediately boarded the ship and began to prepare it for sail. "I'm finally fu*king free!", he thought. "I just have to get the boat sailing towards the west outside of the Empire's nautical control. If I head south I'll run right into the smaller island communities and their control."

Joseph set the boat, the sail and directions westward. He laughed to himself, "I guess that military training paid off." As the boat began to leave the dock. Joseph still in his Hadian military uniform didn't think twice about it or what problems it would cause if he landed on another nation's country. He set a goal to make it to Vultesia or anywhere on that continent. He just wanted to be gone from Hadian.

His memory as a young boy who watched the Hadian Imperial Government come for his brother, because his brother was deaf haunted him. In accordance to the state he was deemed defective and taken to Otto Hospital.

That day still burns in his mind. He'll never forget it. He was playing outside with his brother. Being young boys playing in dirt and pretending to fight a war. When three men in Hadian Juchekorp uniforms came. Aware of their presence while his younger brother still played, Joseph stop playing watching the men engage with his parents and watched his mother point to his younger brother. Joseph just stood still and the men came and picked up his brother like he was nothing. He lacked any words to say nor really knew what was going on. *Flashback* "Mom! Why are they taking Vladimir? Will he come back?" A young Joseph asked... "No, son.. Vladimir is going somewhere special and he'll be okay, don't worry about it my love." Joseph's mother said smoothly and calmly.

Young Joseph watch as his brother was put in what looked like a medical vehicle. That was the last he ever seen of him. *Back to reality* Joseph hated his parents and the government. They took his best friend away and now knowing what he knows, they executed his brother for being defective. "I'm almost past the point of no return and I'll be able to manage this boat towards a new continent. "I just hope I'm welcomed and not sentenced back to Hadian, he thought."