Aman exhaled sharply, his gaze locked on the final reward—the one he'd been both dreading and craving.
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[Memory Fragment: The First Thread]
"All stories begin somewhere. This is yours."
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Note:
"Consume when ready to remember what was forgotten."
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His fingers twitched.
Finally.
Answers. A glimpse into the hollow spaces of his mind, the missing pieces he'd carried like phantom limbs.
Or just more questions.
But he was done waiting.
Here goes nothing.
With a mental command, he accepted the fragment.
For a heartbeat—nothing.
Then—
Pain.
It lanced through his skull like a white-hot needle, splitting his thoughts open. A crack formed in the dark vault of his mind, and through it poured—
Darkness.
...
Then—
Sound.
...
The world erupted in a cacophony of roars—deep, guttural, shaking the very air. The earth trembled beneath monstrous footsteps, each impact sending cracks spiderwebbing through the broken ground.