The Wrong Person

"You are chosen," "you are special." Very many people want to hear that. But why doesn’t anyone ask what exactly hides behind those loud words? And the answer to this seemingly simple question won’t please you. No one will tell you that representatives of the huge Star Confederation selected you out of hundreds of millions only in order to save a soulless, yet necessary, dying scientist—someone who is needed by someone. You are required only to house his consciousness in your body. No one will tell you that even in this star civilization someone might make a mistake and, instead of a simple procedure, succeed in awakening within you an ancient and powerful entity: the Eater. The Eater of energy and life. No one will tell you that this entity will want not just to come alive in your consciousness, but to be reborn in you. And certainly no one will tell you that this is only the beginning of your adventures… For everyone you will be—both now and later—far from the "not-the-same" person you really are. A person who has been given the gift of the Eater.