A/N: This should be the second to last chapter. Thank you all for your lovely reviews! They are all greatly appreciated!
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Time slides together after this. Artemis regains his memories slowly and steadily. He walks around the manor grounds, a place once a sight of battles for hoarded wealth now a community garden. Sights and sounds are familiar now. Smells and tastes bring back even more memories. Juliet, Butler's sister, has perfume that smells like walking past the woman's changing room of the dojo and the panicked experienced of realizing that the battery of your solar powered aeroplane has been stolen. One day in the gardens a squat hairy man who smells of underground caverns, explosions, and dead rabbits came out of a hole in the ground.
"I know you," said Artemis, "Your name is Mulch Diggums."
"Sure is kid," says Mulch, "If anyone asks, the crops from that field over there were gone to begin with."
Though she's been offered a bed in one of the manor's numerous guest bedrooms, Holly insists on sleeping on the couch in Artemis' office until Artemis assures her that he can take care of himself.
She still visits every few days or so.
