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“So to reclaim the present is to reclaim the past?”

“Even now, I reclaim my past.” She wrapped herself around my arm. “It’s not every day I make a sunrise oath, Gale Jones.” We parted happily for the last time. The love of my dreams was the same enigma as seven years ago, and I was the same useless boy. Our sunrise oath was fruitless; I loved not the sunrise, and found not her name.

That day, Selene asked to stay over. “My sister and I need time apart. Do you mind?”