In a world of law and order, where homosexuality is a crime, the youngest son of the leader of the most prosperous city on the continent is homosexual and, of course, has to keep it to himself, which leads to a lonely and dissolute life. In that same city, criminals are not punished with death, but with stasis, a kind of hibernation obtained by means of magic that keeps them in suspended animation for a certain number of years, proportional to the crime committed. In the dungeon, a criminal is in stasis from 300 years and his sentence is one thousand. There, his young son sees him as a child, and finds him again years later, summoned by a series of nightmares. The court magician, however, is lying in wait, aware both of the young man's sexual deviance and of his enormous and unknown magical potential, which he decides to use for his own ambition. The youngest son, however, is not the fool that everyone, and especially the magician, believes, and will manage to free himself and the prisoner, escaping from a city that is nothing more than a prison.
Started with skepticism, read with increasing pleasure.