Will Pike

We often talk about life-changing moments.

Sometimes they're good, and sometimes they're not.

Sometimes they're of our own making, many times they're not.

Will Pike had just returned home from Mumbai, a city that had unwillingly played host to a violent and deadly terrorist attack lasting four days, leaving 175 people dead and more than 300 injured.

Will and his partner had managed to survive.

However, Will had only just barely done so.

In an attempt to escape both the fire consuming one of the country's most famous and exclusive hotels and the terrorists still occupying it, Will and his partner had fashioned a rope from bedsheets and attempted to climb down the outside of the building.

He fell.

Fifty feet.

Roughly the equivalent of five stories.

Surgeons in Mumbai had managed to piece him back together.

When he hit the ground, he'd shattered his left wrist, smashed his right elbow, fractured his pelvis and punctured a lung.

Those injuries were serious, undeniably so.

Life-altering?

Well, on their own, perhaps.

Not permanently.

But it was the way that he landed that would create the injury that truly changed everything.

An injury that would mean his entire way of life from that day forward would look nothing like the one he'd left behind in that hotel in Mumbai.

And up until this point, he was unaware of exactly what it was that he was facing.

Chapter 7.