Nameless: Carry on, small one

And the sky is filled with light
Can you see it?
All the black is really white
If you believe it
As your time is running out
Let me take away your doubt
You can find a better a place
In this twilight

Crippled. Deaf. This creature was born, and his parents had two choices; either release him with painless euthanasia, or let him enter a government controlled virtual reality where he could 'hear,' walk well, and live out a nourished life in fiction.

Either way, they could try once more for their second of two children, and he would become another's problem.

They chose the path of life, and bid a shaky farewell to the son they had just sentenced to a virtual hell.