"Why wasn't it you?" The question haunted me like a shadow, a constant reminder of my useless existence. My family, his friends, his girlfriend, and even strangers, all looked at me with eyes full of anger and despair. What did I owe them? What had I done to deserve their contempt? But I felt nothing. Only an emptiness, a bottomless pit that swallowed me whole. Until the message arrived. A whisper in the darkness, a promise of escape. "Do you want to go to another world?" Who wouldn't? Who wouldn't want to escape the prison of pain and despair that was my life?