Rule Maker: I Set Rules for Weirdness

I wrote emergency plans for six years. Each item is marked: This plan does not bear real consequences. Until this time, the rules I wrote took effect. Within the coverage area, Weird must comply; the price is that I lose—a memory, a sense, or ten years of life. When the Rules Department took me out from the 14th floor, he said: Forty-seven people have entered that wall, and not one of them has come back. I said it was because they read too carefully. I never read the rules. I write the rules.