if Elizabeth knew, or if she lost her memories too.”

“Maybe you’ll get to ask her.”

“But what if she doesn’t know? What if Mashuwa shielded her from it, even after all this time? How could I do that to her? How could I burden her with that knowledge?”

“You think it’s better to be happy at the cost of ignorance?” Annyka asked. “You wish you could go back to not knowing?”

“Wish?” Nathaniel replied. “If I had a wish, I’d wish that no one had died. I’d wish none of it had ever happened.”

“But if you could forget?” she probed.

He frowned at her, and then looking away he dwelt on this question a moment longer. The weight of it pushed on his shoulders and made him look down.<...

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