Chapter 106 – The Truth Hidden in Repetition
POV: Liora
Fear had stopped being useful.
There had been a time when every new memory left me shaken. Every vision felt like an invasion. Every fragment of another life threatened to overwhelm me. I had spent weeks reacting to things I didn't understand, struggling to keep my balance while truths older than kingdoms crashed into my existence.
That phase was over.
Not because I had become stronger.
Because eventually confusion gives way to analysis.
And analysis gives way to questions.
The most dangerous question of all wasn't what the memories were trying to show me.
It was why.
I sat alone in one of the fortress's oldest archives, surrounded by records most people had never seen. Ancient books covered the table in front of me. Maps lay scattered between them. Notes filled several pages beside my hand.
For hours, I had been organizing memories.
Not literally.
That would have been impossible.
There were too many.
