Silas tests the silence around his soul-name. The buried crown gives no answering pulse, no tug in shadow, and no whisper rises from the earth.
Silas
The crown cannot hear it from the unenchanted earth.
Orivex remains curled against the alcove wall, bronze wings tucked close. One dark eye watches the road through the roof-crack while his tail rests near Silas.
Orivex
Was the missing memory a place, a person, or something you learned? You do not need to tell me the name if it hurts to speak.
The question settles gently between them. Beyond the masonry, patrol boots pass overhead, distant enough to leave the alcove undisturbed but near enough to shorten their rest.
Orivex
My mother says a stolen memory is still part of you. If the necromancer took pieces before, perhaps the crown only found an old wound.
Orivex
I will remember what you cannot, Silas. Not the missing thing itself, but that it belonged to you. When you are ready, we leave together.
✓ Quest Accepted
Tell Orivex what memory was stolen