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𖡎 palimpsest /ˈpalɪm(p)sɛst/
noun: originally, a manuscript or parchment that has been scraped or washed clean, then written over again. Yet no erasure is ever complete-the old words remain, faint and stubborn, shadows beneath the new.
∴ a text that carries two stories at once: what is present, and what refuses to vanish.
by extension: a life layered in memory, the past pressed beneath the present, ghost-ink bleeding through no matter how much you try to rewrite it. to live as a palimpsest is to be haunted-every moment doubled, nothing truly forgotten. 𖡎
Niall Horan has everything riding on his season - the scholarship, the scouts, the future he's been chasing since he first kicked a ball.
Riley Maddox just wants a clean slate, far from the ghosts of a past she can't seem to outrun.
They're strangers on the same campus, carrying weight neither of them can set down.
Neither of them are looking for each other.
But some memories refuse to be forgotten.