After the fall of the Circuit of Silence, the world changed.
It didn’t scream.
It whispered.
Whispers of things once forgotten.
Places people stopped dreaming of.
Names… that were never supposed to exist.
But one name kept echoing in Amaris's head.
Not her own.
Not Tavian’s.
Not even the Core’s.
A name that made her chest tighten whenever the wind blew east.
> “Lyra.”
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She didn’t know who Lyra was.
Or why the name tasted like grief and moonlight.
But the Core pulsed every time she thought it.
One night, unable to sleep, she left Tavian behind and walked into the ruins of the old cities — places The Forgetting had devoured centuries ago.
> “Lyra,” she whispered again.
A breeze stirred.
The ground shimmered.
And the stars — just for a moment — aligned into a shape.
A girl’s face.
Eyes closed. Lips parted. A scar over her right cheek.
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Suddenly, Amaris remembered.
Not an event.
Not a fact.
But a feeling.
> Holding hands.
Laughing in rain.
Promising not to let go.
Lyra wasn’t just a name.
She was a part of her.
Ripped away.
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> “Why didn’t I remember this before?” she asked the Core inside her.
> “Because she didn’t die,” it answered.
“She was removed.”
Removed?
Not forgotten.
Erased.
Not by magic.
Not by The Forgetting.
But by something older.
Something even the Core feared.
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At that moment, Tavian appeared behind her.
> “You came here too?”
She nodded.
> “I remembered someone I was never supposed to.”
> “That means they still exist,” he said. “Somewhere.”
And Amaris realized…
The journey wasn’t over.
The Forgetting was just the symptom.
The disease was something much deeper.
A force that didn’t want people to connect.
That punished love.
Cut ties.
Destroyed bonds before they ever began.
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> “We need to go to the origin,” she said.
> “Where is it?”
She looked up at the stars.
They pulsed again.
And whispered:
> “Where memory was born… and where it was betrayed.”
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memory core
Fantasy> ❝Memories don't die... They just hide where no one dares to look.❞ Mira thought she was just a normal girl. Until she woke up in a strange room, with a name that wasn't hers and a heart that remembered something... or someone... else. There is som...
