Chapter 32: Machina (2)
The girl the priests called the “Guide” slowly opened her eyes.
In her pupils, the border between reality and dreams shimmered faintly.
It took her a few more seconds to fully grasp where she was—or why she was here at all.
Her unfocused gaze looked like it was staring into some distant, forgotten memory.
Like watching old film stock through a projector, scenes from the day she first arrived here flickered through her mind.
The day I first came here...
Time had passed, a lot of it—but the girl remembered that day with the clarity of data precisely logged into a computer.
The sudden abduction.
The ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ other kids trembling in fear.
The priests who looked like unidentified machines.
When the process of gathering those memory fragments finished, the girl turned her gaze toward the giant window of the room.