"What did you seal inside?" I asked, the moment the words had settled enough for me to speak them, my voice steadier than I felt.Cassian shook his head slowly, his eyes still fixed on the black door as though it might answer for him if he stared long enough. "I don't know.""You don't know, or you won't say?""I don't know," he said again, and I heard the desperation underneath it, a man frightened by the size of his own missing pieces, his hands opening and closing at his sides like he was searching for something solid to hold onto. "I remember sealing it. I remember the weight of the stone under my hands, the exact sound it made closing. I don't remember what I sealed, or why, or what it cost me to do it."I felt something uneasy settle over me, watching him. How many times could a person's memory be taken before the man left behind became a stranger even to himself, a collection of borrowed fragments rather than a single continuous person."I need you to understand something," he
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