They bought my body after I drowned when I was fifteen.
I came from a planet with oceans.
Nobody missed me.
That's all I know.
[Not maudlin, barely wistful, something more like an accounting, a careful repetition of what she has been allowed to remember, neither the first repetition nor the last. She says it like a litany, like a rosary: resonant in the abstract, but rote in the moment.]
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They bought my body after I drowned when I was fifteen.
I came from a planet with oceans.
Nobody missed me.
That's all I know.
[Not maudlin, barely wistful, something more like an accounting, a careful repetition of what she has been allowed to remember, neither the first repetition nor the last. She says it like a litany, like a rosary: resonant in the abstract, but rote in the moment.]