One day. That’s all I have. One day, before my memory is wiped and terror wrecks the world. One. Measly. Day. We live in a place separated into sectors;: Cordiality, the ones with loving souls.; Magnanimity, the selfless.; Audacious, the bold and reckless,; and Omniscience, the ones who control us all.
In the past months, I’ve been through horrors you can’t even think of. Betrayal, you can’t imagine going through. And heartbreak, so terrible, it can break you. I am Octavian Shrier, a member of the sector Magnanimity. Welcome to my world.

Wake Up. School. Eat. Homework. Sleep. That’s my whole life in six words. At fifteen years old, you’d think I’d be doing more than that. If I were you, would too. This morning my mother gave us all the same jam on toast as she did each day. She wears her hair in a short ponytail, simple, like everyone else from Magnanimity. Our clothes are worn dull;: greys, whites, and blacks. She nods at me, no words needed for me to comprehend what she was trying to say. I was going to be late for school.