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Not a question. "Yes. I need you to walk me through everything you remember. Not the summary. Everything." Amara told her. She had a good memory, the kind that stored sensory detail alongside factual information, so that when she described the rooftop she included the smell of the city below them and the particular quality of the light from Raines's phone screen against the dark and the sound Raines made when Amara told her it was the best thing she had written, a small exhale that Amara described as someone releasing something they had been holding for a long time.

Then he read the other spines. “Woolf. Munro. Ishiguro.” “I read differently for work than for pleasure,” she said. He took the glass from her. “What are you reading now?” She told him. He had not read it. She described it briefly and watched him absorb the information carefully, the same way he absorbed everything else. “I am reading something I avoided for years,” he said. “What is it.” “A memoir by a fighter I admired when I started out.” “Why avoid it.”

Like no one else, I knew perfectly well what memory is and how it works, and I knew very well how it happened when memories began to emerge from such depths that the body literally turned inside out, what was remembered was so unpleasant , and as always at the wrong time. "You remember me," the old wolf in the wheelchair remarked satisfactorily. His son, putting on trousers and a jacket that hung on a chair, stood behind him. I was in no hurry to answer, sorting through long-forgotten moments from my childhood. Fuck! Well, what a cruel irony that Ibragimov Sr. was the same wolf who visited my mother from time to time when Sasha and I were little.

Not until I heard someone calling my name. "Rowan?" I immediately stopped walking when I heard someone call my name again, I turned my back trying to find where the voice came from. My eyes widen when I saw Memo wearing only his red bikini brief, I don't know if the water dripping from his body is his sweat or because he just came from swimming in the sea. I swallowed when my eyes stop at his wet body with a little muscle in it, he is fucking hot. Am I allowed to even say that? I've seen a lot of men on their briefs so I don't understand why it's different when it comes to Memo, it feels like I want to take off the only fabric that was covering his nakedness.

Because of her photographic memory, her ability to recall exactly what she had seen was top notch. All these years, she had dutifully written down every single vision she had seen, starting with the one of her and Hazel. It didn’t matter if she could change the vision or not. Whether it happened or not. She just jotted everything down. Perhaps one day, the diary entries would come in handy and she would get to save a lot of lives. With that in mind, she flipped to the next page where another entry awaited to be written and she sighed heavily as she wrote down the disturbing title; THE GRUESOME MASSACRE.

Lines drifting. If I forget, remind me who I was. If I remember, don’t believe me. They say the memories are mine now. My fingers tighten around the edge of the paper. This isn’t Rome. This isn’t Aurelia yet. This is before. I feel it in my bones. On the floor beneath the desk is a cardboard box. I kneel and pull it toward me, the corrugation soft with age. Inside are loose pages, folded and unfolded too many times. Medical pamphlets in Italian and English. A single French one.

I just needed her to stay. She was staying. --- The memoir was finished in October. Two hundred pages. Single-spaced. The story of my life from beginning to end. I printed it out. Put it in a box. Put the box in the closet. Laura found it. Of course she found it. She found everything. "Damon." "Laura." "You finished the book." "Yes." "Can I read it now." I was quiet for a long time. "Yes," I said. She took the box.

I creased my brows as if it took me some effort to recall. "Oh…" I suddenly gasped in realization, deliberately letting myself trail off before flashing an innocent smile. "So that was you—I'm so sorry, but like you said, it happened twenty years ago. It was so long ago that I've forgotten it. See, as I've accomplished so much important research work day after day, who has time to remember such… trivialities?"

After hanging up, I walked to the window and opened it. Outside, snow covered everything in white. Branches bent under its weight, snapping with sharp cracks that echoed in the still night. Time flew, and before I knew it, another deep winter had come. In the blur of falling snow, I thought I saw him again. The cold wind whipped my hair as he stood far away. His voice, loud and clear. "Hey, Rose! We made a promise, remember? We'd stay strong and keep on living." I will, Adrian. My last memory of you… I would never forget it.

“This is what your grandmother remembers. What your uncle whispered before he passed. What your teacher never got to publish. This is where you write what the world tried to change.” She placed the book on the table and left it open. No guard watched over it. Just a pen. And a blank page. Kaya didn’t sleep much during the third week. She found herself pacing the empty hallways of the Geneva annex, passing the names on the wall, the echo of old stories in her ears. The walls were filled with names of operatives, collaborators, and civilians once erased restored by testimony and the Doctrine. But now even those names felt unstable. What happens, she wondered, when remembrance becomes a game of