"My name is Emily. I'm twenty-seven years old, and my life is about to end. " A world where a person must choose their path carefully or else become part of an increasingly impoverished population. For the brave, or the weak, a much darker path is available: the Trials. Any person who makes it through will become the undisputed ruler of all humanity, but no one has survived it in thousands of years, and no one comes back. This story is about one such trial, and a group of people, with their own reasons, willing to put their lives on the line. How far would you get?