I would say he should run away and experience life the way it should have been in the first place. The community shut out all differences and uniqueness.
Can you give us more information? I don’t understand?
Pledge to do something.
Engagement.
Duty.
Obligation to do something.
Does this help?
Meanwhile would be an appropriate conjunctive adverb to complete that sentence.
He sped up, but he heard footsteps going faster as he went. He broke into a sprint. He ran for what he felt like was forever, and had an idea. He took a shortcut through the alleyway by his mother's favorite restaurant, and hid behind the dumpster. He couldn't see anything, but he could hear fatal footsteps as the man ran past the dumpster. He stayed hidden for a moment, just to be sure. About a minute later, he got out from behind the fish-stench-covered dumpster and ran home. But this time, he made sure he wasn't being followed.
