Three seconds

Born in Paris on April 3rd 1980, his father decides for his twelfth birthday to throw away his comics collection and replace them with the entire collection of Sherlock Holmes, as well as a curious book recounting the adventures of a dwarf with hairy feet named Bilbo.
From that day was born a love for the imaginary, escape, fantasy, and lost causes (get his comics back). Verne, Tolkien, Doyle, Zelazny quickly became his companions, much more than his neglected school textbooks.
For reasons out of his control, many worlds had stayed trapped, behind the bars of his multiple IT jobs.
Until the day letting out those prisoners became a necessity...