Opening Situation: Words On A Page You, Too, Will Forget

Though you have embarked upon these first few words now, the fact that the last line of the last piece of parchment in this tale has already been pressed in ink will remain no less than absolute fact forever. In this story, there is one thing you can never change—that is, what lies ahead. Everything that you are about to read has already come to pass. Your only job is to listen and to move silently on, knowing you have already done everything you ever could. This is how it is: the tale has been long complete, and every story that has ever begun has ended.