Three Lives, Two Mates, One Enemy
Aldric said.
"To be forgotten itself." Wren looked at her hands. "It's one of the oldest things in the records. Pre-cage, pre-keeper. And somewhere in the very beginning of the root records, before the caging, before anyone thought of caging it, someone wrote down that the forgetting-thing was encountered in the deep wild and it didn't come for people. People came to it. They sought it out. Deliberately. Because it could do the thing they needed, which was take away the weight of who they'd been, let them start without the history of themselves, give them a clean—" she found the root word, "...ground. An empty field to build on."
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