Chapter 17: The Memory ShifterThat controlled chaos continued to course through me. Everywhere through me. It was like my blood calmly, composedly, beating against my skin and the walls of my veins, though the red rivers yearned to burst past these barriers and hurtle throughout my body. It was like my heart progressively pounding in harmonic rhythm to the rain outside, even with it dying to explode into a frenzied tempo of its own. It was like the sedated sense of stupefaction that overwhelmed me now, a suppressed shock which was being tipped across the edge into glorious wrath. I couldn't believe it. All this knowledge I grasped…it was nerve-rattling, outrageous, so shatteringly deplorable. For the majority of my life, a game had been set in play, a ruse which seemed to trap my whole fa

