It has been three years since you received the wheelchair from Mr. Erlic. Tomorrow is your seventeenth birthday, and just a week ago was Toya's eighteenth birthday. You go to bed this night, and dream happy dreams. The next morning you wake slowly. The house is cold. 'Toya must still be asleep.' You think. 'I'll surprise him by lighting a fire and making breakfast.' You slide out of bed and hoist yourself into the wheelchair. You start the fire and begin the breakfast. As it cooks, you roll yourself over to the window and look outside. The ground is covered n a thick layer of snow. You smile, seeing the white powder. 'Snow or my birthday, like always.' You think as you leave the window to finish breakfast. The breakfast sits on the table, growing cold, before you finally realize that something is wrong. Toya hasn't got up yet. You go over to his bed. He is perfectly still.
"Toya, wake up. I fixed breakfast and it is getting cold." Toya doesn't even react. "Toya-kun. TOYA! Toya, it isn't funny! Please, Toya. Wake up!" Tears form in your blue eyes and begin to leak down your face as you shake his shoulder. "TOYA!" You burst into tears and collapse onto the bed next to him. Your eyes spot a reddish stain on his covers, and on his chest where his heart would be. You lay down against his chest, sobbing your heart off. You know that he is dead, and you can't think of anything else.
Several hours later, you finally get back up. You sit back in your chair and drag Toya's cold body over to you. Holding him with one arm, and moving your chair with the other, you go over to the bookcase. You remove a book from the middle of the middle shelf and push the button behind it. The bookcase moves, opening a section of the wall, through which you roll, leaving the bookcase open behind you. At the end of the hall is the room in which you and Toya practice alchemy. Carefully, you slip Toya's body off of your lap, leaving him in the center of the room, along with blood from your hand. You draw the transmutation circle around Toya's body. You slip out of your chair and place your hands on the edge of the circle, one still oozing blood. Blue lightning fills the room. Suddenly, you sense that something isn't right, that something has gone with the transmutation. You glace down and see your legs slowly disappearing. You close you eyes with pain, and when you open them, you're in front of a huge door. It opens slightly, and black hand like things reach out and pull you in. Billions of images flash before your eyes, and you feel as if tons of information is being crammed into your head. The images fade, and you're back in the alchemy room. Your legs and arms are almost gone now. Something that looks like Toya stands up and walks over to you. The room keeps going in and out of focus. The thing sews up your stumps and bandages them. Then it leaves, letting you slip into the darkness you've been so afraid of without Toya to comfort you.