After seven years,
Raven managed to study engineering, just as he had promised his father, and started working at a construction company, where he had already completed his second year.
However, things did not go as positively as he had expected.
Raven began to feel suffocated by his repetitive days, the pressure of work, and the constant shouting of his manager, which seemed to have no reason or end, even though he always did his job to the best of his ability.
He would return home late and exhausted, heading straight to his bed to lie down with a weary expression. Those moments were the best part of his day, just before waking up again to prepare for work.
Raven's life began to feel like an endless loop, a cycle with no escape. It weighed heavily on his chest, suffocating him.
This was not the life he had dreamed of. But this was reality. Life does not show mercy just because you dream. It does not care about you or your dreams. If you do nothing to change it, it will never change. You will never escape this cycle unless you break it yourself.
Raven no longer needed to think about how his day would go. He began doing things automatically, like a machine, day after day.
The days passed, yet nothing ever changed.
Until that day, when Raven entered his apartment after a long day of work. He rushed toward his bed and collapsed onto it, completely exhausted.
As he fell asleep, he thought about the day this deadly routine would finally end.
But this time, he had the same dream he once had as a child—a dream of a young man growing wings and flying over the sea alongside the birds.
However, this time was different.
When he woke up, he felt something strange in his body.
Feathers were scattered all over the room.
He quickly threw the blanket off himself in panic, only to discover pure white wings had grown from his back.