Prologue
The bus rattled down the endless stretch of road, cutting through the muted landscape like a quiet, relentless drumbeat. Jake leaned against the window, his gaze fixed on the world blurring past—trees folding back into themselves, hills slipping into valleys, towns dissolving into countryside. He was listening to music, soft and low in his ears, a quiet soundtrack that matched his thoughts as he watched the fleeting scenery with a detached sense of familiarity.
Jake’s body fit awkwardly in the cramped bus seat; tall but lean, with the kind of wiry frame that hinted at both youth and untapped strength. His skin was a touch too fair, catching glints of the soft daylight seeping through the glass, while his features were youthful but strong—a sharpness to his jawline, lips often set in a subtle line that masked his thoughts. His hair, a dark, careless tousle, caught shadows against the curve of his neck and framed eyes that held a mix of guarded intensity and quiet curiosity. Those eyes—a warm shade of brown that could seem almost amber in the right light—were the kind that had seen enough to be thoughtful but not quite enough to be jaded.
The music pulsed gently in his ears, a subtle thrum grounding him as he let his mind drift. Out here, miles away from anything familiar, the world seemed both vast and detached, as if he were merely passing through, a bystander to its ceaseless churn. Jake was twenty-one, yet he felt as if he’d been in this limbo his whole life—watching, waiting, his potential like an itch just below the surface, restrained by forces he didn’t fully understand.
A heavy sense of transition weighed on him today, almost pressing into his chest as the bus drew him toward an uncertain future. Life had a way of nudging him along paths he hadn’t chosen. Choices were something he felt he’d only partially made for himself, and his destination—some remote, unfamiliar base he’d read about in passing—was no exception. He had his reasons for going, reasons that sometimes felt flimsy in the face of all he was leaving behind, but sitting here, with nothing but the silent rhythm of wheels beneath him and the vast stretch of highway outside, there was a strange comfort in the unknown.
He shifted, crossing his arms over his chest, feeling the faint ache in his shoulders and back from the journey. His body was toned but naturally so, the definition of someone who’d stayed active without chasing after fitness, and his posture held that same ease—alert but unstrained, as if life had yet to weigh him down. His fingers tapped absently against his arm, in rhythm with the music, as his gaze slipped back to the window.
The landscape blurred into abstraction, colors melting into one another as the bus hurtled forward. And as he watched, a quiet thought stirred, slipping in like the faint bassline in his music: Maybe this is exactly where I’m meant to be.
The bus had eased into quieter roads, where the city’s hard edges gave way to open fields and small clusters of trees, muted under the hazy afternoon sky. As the countryside spread out, vast and indifferent, Jake felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He watched the blur of farmland, fences, and the occasional farmhouse glide past, feeling as though he were being slowly swallowed by the distance. This wasn’t a path he’d chosen; every mile felt like a tether pulling him closer to something he didn’t want.
Jake sighed, pressing his forehead to the cool glass, eyes fixed outside but unseeing, his mind drifting back to the unyielding face of his father. This wasn’t some rebellious breakaway or a last-minute escape; this was him obeying orders, following the iron-clad dictate of a man who’d made this decision for him. He’d tried to fight it—God, he’d tried. But in the end, his father’s word had closed around him like a vise. Any hint of refusal had only tightened the hold, and so here he was, sitting on this bus, the passive passenger to someone else’s choice.
A quiet curse slipped past his lips, barely audible over the hum of the bus and the faint beat of music still playing in his ears. He felt his jaw tighten, resentment bubbling up like a fire he couldn’t put out. The thought of it—that he was being shipped off to somewhere unfamiliar, to endure god-knew-what—all to satisfy a man whose approval seemed impossible to earn. His dad had made sure he understood: this wasn’t about what Jake wanted or even what was best for him. This was about obedience, about control, about bending him into a shape his father approved of, like a pawn being placed on a board.
His chest rose and fell with a quiet, controlled breath, the kind he’d learned to take when anger threatened to spill over. Outside, fields of grain swayed gently in the distance, rows upon rows stretching toward an endless horizon. A quiet life, undisturbed, far from any conflict. He envied that simplicity, wondered if he’d ever feel anything close to it. Because in his own life, there was no peace, no easy drift. Just a constant, rigid path laid out for him, one that he felt bound to follow.
The weight of it pressed down on him as the scenery slipped past. If only he could be somewhere else, somewhere beyond his father’s reach. But here he was, obeying orders, his own wants crammed down and buried beneath the layers of expectation.
Jake shifted, slipping his hand into his bag and pulling out a folded piece of paper. It was creased at the edges, worn from where his fingers had traced it more times than he’d care to admit. He unfolded it slowly, staring down at the stark black ink slashed across the page in his father’s sharp, controlled handwriting—a handwriting that left no room for ambiguity or rebellion.
The words felt as heavy as a command, pressing into him like stones. At the top, bold and underlined, was the name of his destination:
Fort Regent Military Base
Camp Harrison
His eyes lingered on the words. “Fort Regent”—a place he’d only heard of in passing, some remote training base with a reputation for breaking recruits down to their bare bones, then building them back up to military standards. And Camp Harrison, the infamous camp within the fort, known among the local boys as a place of harsh discipline and relentless structure. It was the kind of place his father had glorified endlessly, a testament to “real” discipline, the kind his dad believed every man should endure, whether they wanted it or not.
The location was scrawled beneath it—miles away from anything he knew, deep in the heart of the country where there’d be no easy escape, no quiet reprieve. Even the address itself had a stark, unwelcoming edge: 18 Regiment Road, District 5, Fort Regent. There it was, his father’s exacting plan laid out in black and white, a cold, unbending command that seemed to mock any thought of defiance.
Jake’s fingers tightened around the paper, his jaw clenching as he stared at it, as if by sheer force of will he could make the ink blur, make the words disappear. But they held firm, as fixed as his father’s expectations.
Jake slipped his hand into his pocket and pulled out his phone, its screen lighting up against the dim interior of the bus. His fingers moved quickly, almost habitually, scrolling through his messages until he found the last thread with Sarah. Or maybe now, his ex. The conversation felt stale, hanging there unfinished, like a doorway he hadn’t meant to walk through but couldn’t close off either.
Her last message stared back at him, a short, clipped line that hovered somewhere between vague and final: "I think we need some space, Jake. I don’t know what else to say." She hadn’t spelled it out directly, but the meaning was as clear as it could be. He’d responded late last night, his own message tinged with confusion and a hint of desperation: "What’s going on? I don’t get it, Sarah. Just talk to me." It sat there, delivered but untouched, the telltale “Seen” mark hovering underneath like a silent, indifferent witness. She’d read it. She knew. But she hadn’t answered, and he didn’t know if she ever would.
A heavy feeling settled in his chest as he stared down at the screen, hoping for some small miracle—that maybe, even now, a reply would pop up, some reassurance that this whole mess wasn’t as final as it felt. He could see his own fingers hovering over the keyboard, his mind scrambling for the right words, something that might bridge the gap she’d quietly placed between them. Can we talk again? He typed the words carefully, trying not to sound as desperate as he felt, then hit send.
But as soon as he did, a small loading symbol spun aimlessly at the top of his screen, mocking him with its quiet insistence. A moment later, a message popped up, blunt and absolute: No internet connection.
He closed his eyes, a curse slipping from his lips. “Fuck.” The word cut through the silence around him, a quiet acknowledgment of the chaos closing in on him from every side. First his father, now this. It was like his whole life was crumbling into pieces he couldn’t hold onto, slipping further and further away no matter how tightly he tried to grip them.
With a resigned sigh, he turned his phone off and shoved it back into his pocket, leaning his head against the window once more. Outside, the world had transformed completely, the last traces of city life having dissolved into open, desolate fields and distant, rolling hills. The outlines of buildings, cars, sidewalks—all the familiar shapes of the life he’d known—had vanished, replaced by an unbroken stretch of countryside that seemed almost indifferent to his presence.
There was something so final about it, as though he were crossing into a place where his past couldn’t follow.
Jake closed his eyes, pressing the heel of his hand into his forehead as if that could somehow squeeze out the anger swirling through him. His thoughts churned, spiraling in a furious loop, an endless, bitter chant. Fuck. Fuck this. Fuck this life. It was a low, seething frustration, a sense of helplessness that only seemed to deepen the more he thought about it. All of it—the suffocating weight of his father’s control, the silence from Sarah, the way everything familiar was being stripped away piece by piece. It was like he was watching his life break apart, bit by bit, and there was nothing he could do to stop it.
The quiet hum of the bus filled the silence around him, punctuated only by the occasional rattle over uneven pavement. Outside, the sun was sinking, casting a hazy glow over the landscape, the world beyond the window shifting into soft shades of amber and shadow. It was peaceful in a way that felt wrong, at odds with the storm rolling inside him. But no amount of beauty out there could ease the frustration building in his chest, tightening with every thought, every half-formed curse he wanted to scream but couldn’t. Instead, it echoed in his head, a bitter mantra repeating itself like a drumbeat: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. An endless loop, circling over his failures, over the things that felt forever out of reach.
And then, just as he was sinking deeper into that angry refrain, he felt it—a subtle shift, the bus beginning to slow. The steady vibration of the engine softened, and the familiar sound of brakes hissing jolted him from his thoughts. His eyes snapped open, the scenery outside slowing to a crawl, the open fields giving way to a stark, looming structure that stood in the distance, wrapped in shadows.
He barely had time to process it before the driver’s voice cut through the bus, loud and matter-of-fact, echoing down the narrow aisle. “Fort Regent!!” The words were sharp, final, as though declaring a sentence.
Jake felt the knot in his stomach twist, a chill creeping through him as the reality hit him square in the chest. This is it.Fort Regent. The place his father had written in bold, unflinching letters on that paper, the place he was expected to bend, to conform, to become whatever it was his dad had decided he should be. The thought of it made his skin crawl, but here it was, as inevitable as a storm rolling in from the horizon.
He looked up, his gaze lingering on the dim outline of the camp ahead, rigid and foreboding against the fading light.
Jake rose to his feet slowly, his body feeling heavy, weighed down by the reluctant acceptance sinking into him. Slinging his bag over his shoulder, he hesitated for a moment, gripping the seat in front of him as if clinging to the last bit of hope that somehow, this was all a bad dream. But the cold metal beneath his fingers, the stale air of the bus, and the firm ground under his feet were reminders that this was real, whether he wanted it to be or not. With a resigned breath, he steeled himself, gathering his things as he made his way down the narrow aisle.
The doors hissed open as he approached, spilling bright, unfamiliar sunlight into his face, and he blinked, feeling the sudden warmth prick at his skin. Stepping down, he landed firmly on the gravel below, the crunch beneath his boots grounding him in a way that felt almost cruel. Before he could fully process it, the bus engine revved up, and with one last glance in his direction, the driver pulled away, leaving him standing alone as the vehicle rumbled back down the road, shrinking into the distance.
The silence that followed was thick, oppressive. Jake watched the bus until it was a mere dot on the horizon, a fading reminder of the life that had brought him here. And then it was gone. His last tie to the world he knew, disappearing in a cloud of dust. A finality settled over him, as if that bus taking off was the closing of a door he couldn’t reopen.
He shifted his gaze, and there, just a few steps ahead, was a weathered signpost, the lettering faded but unmistakable: Fort Regent. Beneath it, in smaller, almost mocking letters, he read: Camp Harrison – 0.5 miles. The sign seemed to stare back at him, indifferent and unyielding, as if it had been waiting for him all along. Half a mile. It wasn’t far, and yet it felt like miles—a final stretch he wasn’t ready to cross.
He tightened his grip on the strap of his bag, the weight of it digging into his shoulder as he took in the barren landscape around him. There was no city skyline, no familiar streets, just open land stretching toward the camp in the distance. This place had been waiting, looming like some inevitable fate he’d been heading toward all his life, and now, there was nothing left to do but start walking toward it.
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