Chapter 585: The absolute limit
Foreign memories crept up in Sofia’s mind like a waking dream. She was in someone else’s body, looking through their eyes, but it was confuse, overwhelming. She understood nothing of what she saw, until, all of a sudden, it calmed down.
Sitting naked in the dirt, in the middle of nowhere, the person in the memories laughed, looking up at the blue sky.
Is this… The old Speed?
She could feel the person’s emotions, somewhat. Relief, excitement, pride. A joyful cocktail that had ingrained this moment in their memory forever.
It was short lived, the scene shifted and warped, a countryside landscape turning into that of a bustling city. Humans were busy, walking to and fro, but the person paid them no attention, just like they did not pay him any. Dressed in peasant clothes, he joined a long line of young people. Everyone’s faces were blurry and faded, the details of the shops in the street and the passing carriages were similarly undecipherable, but Sofia could read one piece of text. Above the gates the people were lined up to enter, a large golden plaque was etched with a few words, that the person in the memory kept staring at.
Ancient human. Sofia could tell. ‘Royal Lineguard Academy of Science’.
The scene warped again. The person was waiting nervously near some kind of altar. There seemed to be many people around, but it was all a giant blur, as if none of them had any importance. The location itself was blurry, Sofia could not understand what this was about, until a young woman made her entrance from a distance, she had beautiful black hair cascading over her white robe. Looking up at the person near the altar, she smiled.
A wedding?!
This memory was the last semi-coherent one, soon overturned by a flurry of scenes and images following each other so fast that Sofia could barely understand anything. Joy, pain, love, anger, overwhelming emotions swole up and recessed, and eventually the plentiful images ceased. Brutally, everything had stopped. Everything turned gray.