"I am the whisper before the final breath, the shadow that lingers at the edge of light. I do not take life—I guide those who have lost it. I am not mercy, nor am I cruelty. I am inevitability. A bridge between the fading and the forgotten, the keeper of names that time seeks to erase." "Once, I was something else. Once, I had a name that was not spoken in hushed reverence or fear. But the past is a graveyard, and I no longer mourn what was buried there."