A/N: A little backtracking for Glitch and a chance to reconnect with his memories…Just a short blurb, but important to the story...
Glitch knew he had forgotten something.
The Resistance fighters and his friends listened as he explained the properties of Moritanium and its uses in magic enhancement. He was on a roll when DG asked him about the sun seeder.
And it was gone again. Blank slate, like someone had taken an eraser and completely wiped out the synapses in his brain. Only this time, the dusty powder of the chalk left illegible outlines that had not been there before. This time, he had the feeling that it had disappeared because his fight or flight synapses were warning him not to remember. Protective little things – his synapses.
He was remembering in larger snatches, but it felt like reading a few pages at the beginning of a book before flipping to a completely different chapter near the end. Everything was disjointed and convoluted still, but when his synapses misfired now he could still hold onto bits and pieces.
"Was my machine so bad?" Why was DG crying? Why did Cain look like he actually might cry if he were not the stoic Tin Man? He had never seen Cain actually show such respect for him before.
Glitch felt it in the back of his head, somewhere just out of reach. A flash of chocolate brown hair and dark eyes bending over the pages on his lab table. A smile as she helped him pour different ingredients into his latest experiment. Where was he and who was she? What had he given up to protect her?
"She had to go straight to the source," DG embraced him and he felt the warm wet of her tears dripping into his hair. It felt right but it also felt wrong somehow. The wrong shape was holding him, but it was not wrong at the same time.
He remembered the Queen – DG's mother. She was a lot like her youngest daughter. Feisty, loving, warm. Why could he not remember her name? It was so easy, right there on the tip of tongue.
"We should all love someone that much."
He had loved someone that much. Why could he not remember?
