Chapter 27 – The Memory of the FirstPart I – Entering the CoreThe storm still raged along the cliffs, but here, in the white light that swallowed the corridor, it was irrelevant.Clara felt nothing but the pulse in her chest, an echo of the compass that was no longer in her hand, now internal, guiding her forward. Every step stretched into eternity. The floor beneath her was neither solid nor liquid, but some unstable substance that felt like compressed time itself.Ahead, the corridor opened into a vast chamber. Walls of white shimmered with faint impressions shapes half-remembered: her own face, blurred in dozens of iterations, interspersed with fragments of objects she knew intimately: the hospital folder, the riverbank, the apartment.Voices hummed beneath the light, indistinct but urgent, all repeating a single phrase in overlapping cadences: Wake… Remember… Wake… Remember…Clara stepped forward, cautious. Every movement seemed to create its own reflection, but not in mirrors e
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