Cassie found herself at the epicenter of a furious, roaring maelstrom of memories. They were like a vast nebula revolving in the great darkness of space, pulled toward a radiant core...
Toward her freshly rebuilt, settling mind.
It felt like it had taken an eternity to pick up the fragments of her shattered mind and piece them all together. To remember who she was, to separate her own memories from those experienced by someone else, to endure the crushing weight of remembering it all.
But in reality, it all happened in the blink of an eye.
It was still happening.
Time did not exist here, after all, in the dark mindscape of her broken self. There was no past and no future, only the present moment...
There was cause and effect, though.
And the distance between them was far less malleable and forgiving than time.
