sharedveins
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They were seven when they built a treehouse and promised forever.
They were twelve when she looked at him like a stranger.
Elora Vane doesn't do softness. She does precision. She does control. She does a forgotten diary that eats her alive. She does a man in a cardigan who smells of security and tells her that weakness is death - she's believed him for so long that her own memories feel like someone else's fiction.
What she doesn't do is childhood. She doesn't remember missing teeth or thunderstorms or a little boy who was called "Dray." She doesn't remember being soft. Being safe. Being human.
But the war outside is bleeding in, and the girl who once turned the edges of skin blue is finally melting. As her past claws its way to the surface - a grave she refuses to visit, a diary that won't stay closed, and a man in black robes who no longer hides - Elora has to face the one question she's been running from:
Is hate all they are, or just the role they've been forced to play?
Draco has spent six years looking for a girl who forgot him. Elora has spent six years forgetting she was ever a person at all.
A story about memory, violence, and the people who love you even when you're bleeding.
Not a love story - yet.
All characters except the Vane family belong to J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter: Wizarding World franchise.