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"Selena"

"No Before Selena Who were you before Selena?"

It took her at least a minute to answer, but this tier and clearer "Don'tknowwho"

He waited for her to ask a question, battling disappointh her dark, led Time stretched between them as he waited for her to ask the all too obvious question He noticed a dozen tiny things in that moment, the maple-syrup hue of her eyes, the quiet sound she le of htdress With every second, every breath he drew, he felt his hope that she could ever be normal fade

She wasn't going to ask if he kneho she was It seemed completely unimportant to her "Can't answer or don't know?"

"Don't know"

He spoke very slowly?too slowly?trying to keep the rising frustration from his voice "Do you want to know?"

"Why?"

The question stunned hie bed, tended by strangers, and she didn't have the least interest in her past, her

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history? "Faht have a fa for you" He kneas speaking too fast, but he didn't care anymore

"Ian" She frowned, touched his cheek

He pulled back and stood up The gaers and thudded to the floor, forgotten and uni in a square hole? She had no mind left She was a blank slate, a childlike adult who didn't relass was solidor that dead mice weren't family pets

Irreparable dae to the brain

She couldn't be his ht even one day be able to formulate a complete sentence, but no more His dreams of redemption were just that Dreams As unattainable as the stars