[Retro]

My name is Patrick Denton. 

I live on the Essharn Peninsula at Starfall Academy. I'm assigned to the Basilisk Dorm House, second floor, first room to the left.

I am Seventeen years old now, and I left my home at the age of thirteen to come here to study and learn.

I believe in bettering yourself everyday. When I wake up I do at least fifteen minutes of light reading in the bath, after which I dedicate at least ten minutes to study over the material the professor's assigned to us the night before.

I like to take walks around the campus before I head to my first class. Either by the beach near Basilisk's dorm house or by the lake in the center of the academy. Sometimes I'll even bring my fishing pole and enjoy catching a few fish before I am forced to my first class by the bell. 

If required, I will perform routine maintenance on my sunglasses, my most prized possession, something I've had since I was but a toddler. 

But lately something has changed. 

What I once saw in my dreams is leaking forth into my vision. The Abyss I stared at, and plunged into is wrapping around me more and more and I can't stop it. She was right. I am changing, and while I do not know how I will end up, or if I can truly stop it I know I will be permanently effected for the rest of my life.

I fear that my younger self may be right, I may be the greatest fool this world has ever seen, but I cannot act on those fears. For it knows when I am afraid, and when I am afraid it comes out. 

I have all the normal characteristics of a human being, blood, flesh, skin and hair, but I cannot feel more than disconnected, for lately my emotions have been filled with anger, greed and lust. Something is slowly happening to me, I fear that my bloodlust is flowing into my every day life. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. 

For whenever I take off my glasses, and I look at myself in the mirror. All I see is someone I did not want to become.