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Route 2, Chapter 11: Total Recall

Saturday, May 6th

Apparently I slept!

Sara's on the next bed over, slowly recovering.

Takeshi and Tsugumi are talking about something outside. I can't tell what.

I reflexively run a finger over my scar...

EXCEPT THE SCAR IS FUCKING GONE.

I know, somehow, that I just lost something vitally important. I lost a part of who I am.

What the fuck are you talking about, Sora?

Extracted what?

Some kind of small fragment of something was embedded in my thumb.

And imprinted in it...

...is a hologram.

The same one from Sara's pendant.

Sora explains the mechanics of the hologram. Normal wavelengths of light, such as flourescents, won't cause it to appear.

It can only be seen under a heat-generating light source.

In other words:

This hologram is only visible in the infrared spectrum.

But why?

Why can only Sara and I see in the infrared spectrum?

Why was part of Sara's pendant embedded in my thumb?

The answer is as simple as it is undeniable.

Sara is my younger sister.

And that was the key.

Everything comes flooding back.

Memories from all across my life.

Then, darkness...

Moon sprite, shouldering a long bow...

The sound of crying.

Is this another memory?

A recollection of the time that Sara's pendant was broken, and the small piece got lodged in my thumb.

Someone came to tell us of a place where we could be happier.

All we needed to do was let them study our unexplained ability to see into the infrared.

That small room became my home.

Marched every day between the research facility and that room, Sara crying from the next room over.

Until the day I was taken away, while she remained behind.

I promised I would come back for her...

But it was a promise I couldn't keep.

I got a new home, with foster parents, who were nice to me, but at the cost of not allowing me to go back for Sara.

As if it mattered - I had no idea where the facility was.

WAKE UP

Now that I'm properly rested, this all makes perfect sense.

Why I could tell the door was hot. Why I could see in the room that You thought was pitch black. Why the others couldn't see the hologram in the mirror.

Why I felt a shock when I first saw Sara in LeMU. Why she was drawn to my thumb that one time in the darkness. Why she looked at me funny when I could see the hologram.

It's all true, then.

Somehow, my little sister got out of that facility.

She grew up, and now she's right here.

The source of my guilt is right here... what am I going to say to her?