Zell remembered. Finally, after these last three years, watching his recognition fade away. Watching his love for me fall to pieces. And I knew that pet of his, Quezacotl, had done it. Every second I saw him, every second I watched who he really was waste away, I damned that bird.

It had been the one to take away every memory of me. To leave only the slightest impressions of hate to build up like a flickering flame.

We had decided to join Garden together, but for him, I gave up that dream. I had silently cheered when I found out he had made SeeD status. But I also cried because I knew that by then the GF had taken away all his memories of me.

I was scared of losing him.

Sure, I could still see him. But it wasn't the Zell I had grown up with. It wasn't the same Zell I had always protected at the Orphange.

Who says only a Sorceress needs a Knight?

I clearly remembered the Orphanage. How, when we were little, and when the storms raged outside, Zell would crawl into my bed and I would hold him tight beside me. How coincidental that he should have a thunder monster at his call.

I held him tighter. Now that I had him back, I never wanted to lose him again. Never.

But how could I control what that damn creature would take from his memories. It had done it once before, why shouldn't it do it again?

Maybe it preferred those memories.

Or maybe it just felt an animosity towards me. I don't know.

I would never learn to like that bird. I would never like any GF. They had destroyed my Zell. Taken away the very things that made him *him.*

His memories.



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