Foreword
Sometimes you just want to do something great, and you just don’t find time to do it. The inspiration for this story came when I was very young, about 12 years old. It came when I first realized that most every story seemed to be unrealistic to some extent, and that every superhero had some superpower. It’s discouraging to read and watch stories about superpeople in super-circumstances. Pácetron (PASS-e-tron) is unique that way. Pácetron isn’t focused on the technology or the powers or magic. It is supposed to reflect, to some extent, our regular world. Of course, in our world, we don’t see Angels walking around, or Demons for that matter. But nobody can prove that they aren’t there. It so happens that in the Pácetron universe, the Guides and Elders (or the Relúminàri and the Shaitans) are frequently visible and present. The heroes (and heroines) of the story are regular people. They aren’t given any powers, any special quests, any tokens or weapons. Certainly enough, there are unexplainable occurrences and fantastic scenes, a sense of some magic and metaphysical realms that wield great power, but surprisingly enough, these things happen all the time in real life, if one only pays close enough attention. Our heroes learn to be themselves, to not be afraid to stand apart from the crowd. They learn to question, but never to doubt; trust, but always be on guard, and that the greatest knowledge of self comes through the selfless gift of one’s self. When they unlock their true selves, they find strength, peace, and courage to do things that they never imagined that they would be able to do.
Believing that you were made for more is life-changing, as those in this tale discovered, and I hope that you come to believe it yourself.
For all the ordinary folk who somehow know that we’re not meant to be “ordinary”,
Daniel D’Amario
