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"So that's it," Theo muttered to himself as seconds continued to pass, his memory of Callane's expression quickly fading from his mind.

It was a process so rapid, it couldn't be natural. There was a chance it was just another avenue through which this barrier isolated one part of the world from others by literally erasing the memory—or, at the very least, the awareness—of those on one side from those stuck on the other.

Yet, from the very moment Theo took notice of it happening, a mental defensive mechanism kicked in in his brain, making him stubbornly refuse to forget even the tiniest detail of his extremely recent encounter.

And, between God and Truth, Theo was way too much of a self-reflectively emotional person to ever hope to forget about Callane.

After all, even if he physically did it before with her, and even if his former self did it with someone else, when it came to Theo's current psyche?

Callane was his first.