Chapter 102 – The Life Before This One
POV: Liora
The memories no longer asked permission.
That was the first thing I realized.
There had been a time when they arrived unexpectedly but briefly, like storms passing through my mind before disappearing again. Then they became longer. Clearer. More detailed.
Now they simply took me.
I was sitting alone in my chambers when it happened.
The fortress was quiet. Evening shadows stretched across the floor, and the last traces of sunlight bled through the windows. I had been staring at an old map without truly seeing it, my thoughts consumed by the realization that I wasn't simply remembering the past.
I was repeating it.
The thought refused to leave me alone.
Every instinct told me there was something important hidden inside that truth.
Something I wasn't seeing.
Something every version of me had failed to understand.
The pressure behind my eyes returned suddenly.
Stronger than before.
