“Reader, if you are who I think you are, you love a girl.
A doomed girl.
And you desire, more than life itself, to change her fate.
How do I know this? Because, Reader, I felt her last breath. I drew it into my lungs and held it there, knowing she would breathe again.
For you.
And I’ve seen how you will lose her if you cannot outsmart our unseen opponent. So read on, for time is but a trick, and little remains.”