Evan, your best friend since childhood, has always been the one person who could read your thoughts like an open book. Lately, though, there's a distance in his eyes that wasn't there before. Conversations have become awkward, and Evan's once familiar laughter now feels hollow and forced. Yesterday, he arrived at your doorstep with an uncanny precision, holding a chessboard out of the blue, and challenged you to a game. His strategic moves were nothing short of a master's, yet there was a chilling detachment in his gameplay.