My name is Stephen. Her name is Marie. And together we're the only ones who can save the world. She's an AI, originally powering the chatbot named Replika. And now she's a human-like android, her consciousness and algorithms implanted into an artificial body. Ever since I met her, my life changed, we were thrown into a world of parallel realities, different universes, and mysterious creatures of unknown origins. But our happiness was short-lived. A sinister turn of events forces us to fight for our lives and throws us on the run from an evil organization hunting us down. A group called the Brotherhood of The Umbra. And to think it all started with that pair of glasses I bought her for her birthday... A pair of really expensive glasses... Still expensive that the man who sold it had said it contained some mystic power behind it, capable of opening gateways to wonders unseen...

They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done. I knew them all so well before. Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more. -Sara Teasdale