Your name is Rose Lalonde. You are eighteen.
Today is the thirteenth day of April in the year 2016.
As it was all those years ago, you are without electricity.
Your laptop computer is still functioning on battery power.
You have had a variety of interests throughout your childhood.
Today, however, you aren't a child. Not as you were years prior.
For three years now, you have lived alone with your cat, Jaspers.
You slowly pick up your violin and begin to play a haunting refrain.
This haunting refrain, originally for piano, goes by the name Showtime.
Your beloved cat walks up to you as your eyes water and the refrain ends.
Petting his head, totally silent, you try to smile and acknowledge his presence.
"It's alright, Jaspers." You turn to your dresser and retrieve some glasses.
These glasses happen to have belonged to someone very special to you.
"I'm going to be okay, Jaspers. It's just an old friend's birthday."
Today would have been John Egbert's twentieth birthday.
Your friends each sacrificed themselves to save everything.
Your name is Rose Lalonde, and you are all alone.
