Chapter Four
I didn’t spontaneously combust. I stayed in my newly minted skin. A flood of memories pushed at the front of my brain with a force that nearly brought me to my knees. Each recollection burned clear and bright in my cramped mind, pushing aside what didn’t matter, which was nearly every other thought, remembrance, and event in my life.
Zane.
He’d once told me we’d met eight times. Eight times since the beginning. I’d forgotten them during my long lifetime. With all my memories now stuffed inside my small brain, I feared I’d forget again. But that wasn’t the case.
I remembered them. I remembered every single one of them. Inside my mind’s eye, eight stars burned brightly.
The first time we’d met had been here. He’d sat in the fields. With a stele in his hand, he drew one of t
