"You mean I could choose certain death?"
"A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see, I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based."
The thirty-third book of the Disc starts off with a rather interesting protagonist. It’s not often our main character is hanged in the first few pages, after all…