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Pain.
Damian said it so casually. But what had he done to himself? I looked at his emaciated body, his pale face.
Perhaps sensing my worry, Damian took my hand and pressed it to his cheek. He even managed a clumsy. reassuring smile. “I’m okay. I didn’t forget you. Not one bit.”
“The System got too clever for its own good,” he continued. “It wasn’t enough to take you from me. It tried to tamper with my memories. That’s when I started to realize it existed.”
“Rhea, that only made me more certain you were alive.“
