Goddammit.
This damned system can tamper with my memory too?
My head spun, and the pain kept hammering into the back of my skull like a relentless chisel.
I could feel it, my own name was slipping away from me. The system was deleting it.
"Don't forget your name!" Jasper's urgent voice rang beside my ear like an alarm bell.
No shit, I know that! But it's already sliding through my fingers…
I clenched my eyes shut and gritted my teeth, fighting back against the system with everything I had. I tried digging deep into my mind, clinging to every trace that might lead me back to my name.
Like a film playing in reverse, I flickered through the faces that had once appeared in my life. Each one blurred, distorted beyond recognition.
"She looks just like her father."
A soft, loving voice rang out, and my memories paused at two figures cloaked in fog, as if an invisible force was preventing me from reaching them.
