Chapter One: The Strangest of Happenings

Lila Devika is my name. I'm from the town of Wichdor, where nothing ever happens, ever. The town where everyone talks and jokes about a place called the Echo as if it were real, but nobody believes that it is, really. I don't think I believe it either. Maybe I just really, really don't want to. But I have to ask, why is the military here? In Wichdor of all places? The truth is that there aren't any reasons to come here.
Well, there is one...