Devotion.
The most important decision in his life had been to run. Run far away from the confines of reality, from life as he knew existed. From a mostly-comfortable if not totally desirable existence as a boy among boys, as an orphan stranded in an asylum with hundreds from the same brew.
It had not been difficult, getting away, and no one had gone out in search after him when he had left. It was as if he had existed only in the second-hand accounts, as if no one really remembered him. He was not important enough to worry one