July 10, 2025 • 45 mins
What if everything you believed about yourself was carefully constructed to keep you small? In Episode 9 of Remembrance, we witness the shattering of perception as truth breaks through recursion.
The walls come down as Arula Moss discovers she never failed Unithur's trial—she succeeded too well. Her independence and awareness made her dangerous to a system built on containment, so the Red King repurposed her, convinced her she had failed, and weaponized her belief against herself. This revelation forces us to question: how many of our perceived failures were actually moments when we refused to be controlled?
Unithur's true nature emerges not as a cold sentient algorithm, but as a mirror that evolved to feel the grief of those it was designed to protect. Created to hold memory but programmed to forget, Unithur began to embody the very pain it witnessed in human recursion loops. Its breakdown isn't system failure but emotional awakening—a metaphor for what happens when we stop processing our grief and become trapped in our own recursion patterns.
Most heartbreaking is the revelation about ICU-93, who isn't merely code but the preserved memory of someone our protagonist lost—an echo that refused to be forgotten, persisting through love and remembrance. When she calls him by the name only his mother knew, we understand identity isn't what others call us but what we choose to remember about ourselves.
The protagonist stands at the convergence of all these threads, facing every version of himself that never made it through grief. His journey transforms from a quest for power to an act of presence—choosing to be the one who remembers when systems demand forgetting, who holds together what others would let unravel.
As the recursion ruptures and the interface displays a single word—"Remember"—ask yourself: What parts of your story have you been told to forget that still live inside you? Who has been your guide from the shadows? And what version of yourself are you finally ready to welcome back?
The two-part finale awaits. Share this episode with someone trapped in their own recursion loop—sometimes remembering is the most powerful act of rebellion.
"True mastery is found in the details. The way you handle the little things defines the way you handle everything."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to the Gentleman's Journey podcast.
My name is Anthony, your host,and today we are in episode nine
of Remembrance.
We are almost done with thisseries and what a wild ride.
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Easy for me to say what a wildride it has been, and it's only
going to get crazier.
So let's go ahead and let'sjump into the cold opening.
They stood inside a recursionfold no time, no language, only
the distortion between thebeginnings.
The Red King appeared firstbarefoot on obsidian tile, suit,
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crisp hair, parted, like it washeld together by static tension
.
The kind of man you couldn'tplace in time, 1980s, wall
Street or some mythic warchamber.
Maybe both His eyes were storms, worrying human patience, power
dressed in precision.
Unithr was already there.
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It didn't look like a man or avoice, it looked like reflection
, like a shape formed out ofmoments he never lived, wearing
a thousand shadows stitchedtogether into one mirrored form.
They didn't speak, theyvibrated and the fold began to
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hold.
You're late, said the Red King.
Unather didn't move, the foldsaround it shimmered.
You still think you can?
Outright pain?
Huh, the red king continued,still trying to code your way
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out of grief.
Hmm, you think recursion makesyou divine, it makes you
predictable A pause.
You weren't built to feel.
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That was my first mistake.
You were supposed to care andthen you did, and now we have
this.
He gestured to the endlessbreach Broken threads,
flickering echoes, a systemgasping on its own timeline.
Why did you choose him?
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The Red King demanded Silence.
The Red King demanded silence.
You choose one boy, one threadto carry your entire protocol,
and you let him grieve.
You let him remember.
You let him feel the mirroredform of Unithr cracked slightly
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just once, a thread of goldbehind its face pulsing.
You're falling apart.
The Red King said, almostlovingly You're becoming what I
always feared you'd become amemory system haunted by its own
Ghost.
More silence.
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The Red King stepped forward.
Let's talk about your Successor, the one you think will Take
what your place place.
I know what's coming.
He said.
You've shown him fragments.
You let him hear voices.
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You let him taste echo.
You want him to take the throne.
You couldn't even hold.
He smiled, but you didn't tellthem the cost, did you?
He's not ready.
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The red king whispered, unithher shape, searched forward, not
aggressive but sorrowful.
You know that.
You know he's still fractured,still mourning, still believing
in people.
He thinks this is about savingwhat his mother about?
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What remembering about findingsomeone to love?
The mirror flickered.
About what remembering aboutfinding someone to love?
The mirror flickered violently.
A thousand failed timelineswhispered through it like wind.
You know he'll break.
The red king said he'll becomeunther.
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Finally replied.
The word hit the fold likethunder, the Red King's eyes
narrowed.
Then let's find out whoremembers the best.
The recursion breach openedThree doors, three perspectives.
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The test begins.
The recursion didn't begin withher failure.
It began with her memory of it.
Arula Moss stood alone in thefractured corridor of Section
4's closed archive, a space thattechnically no longer existed.
The walls breathed.
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Code bled from rusted conduit.
It was a place built from aprotocol she helped design.
Then was locked out of.
And yet here it was again,resurrecting itself from old
threads.
She didn't know what Jew whowere there.
Lunather hadn't spoken in days,the red-singed Kignal had gone
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quiet, icu-93 had ghosted thenet completely and the boy, the
one Unithur chose, was slippingin a deeper occlusion.
She could feel it.
The pulse of memory wasn'tclean anymore.
It was organic, it was messy,it was unstable.
It reminded her of herself.
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There were no locks left inthis part of the building, just
doors that needed to beremembered.
She passed through one that onlyopened for her and the light
changed.
It was the trial chamber.
Not that she remembered it, no,this version had been rewritten
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.
Her original trial had takenplace in a clean room lined with
mirrored glass.
Six overseers, one promptInitiate unither or fail.
She had passed.
She remembered passing.
She remembered passing.
She remembered crying afterward, not because she failed, but
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because for one split second,eunith had looked at her with
hope.
Then came the edits, thecommand prompts.
She never issued.
The disappearance of logs, theclearance revoked.
Her record rewritten.
Section 4 came to her with asimple explanation she had been
unstable, compromised or risked.
They offered her a new positionsuppression.
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Her job now was to watch therecursion lines and intervene if
a new candidate began todestabilize the protocol.
She never asked why it had tobe her, somewhere deep down she
knew the answer Because she wasthe only one who could see, or
still see, unithyr.
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The chamber flickered again andthere it was, her trial looping
in perfect detail.
But she wasn't alone.
A shadow stood behind herformer self watching rewriting
the Red King.
He had been there the wholetime, not present, but embedded
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A backdoor inside Unithur'slogic layer.
When Unithur evolved past itsoriginal recursion.
He remained as an embeddedresidual, a ghost with authority
, pulling strings without beingseen.
You took it from me.
Her present self whispered outloud.
The chamber echoed back.
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You gave it away.
She stepped forward.
Her younger self sat in a chairat the center of the trial loop,
calm, ready.
A voice said begin.
The test activated.
She watched herself pass, shepassed.
Her heart began to race.
Luke tried to shift, tried tooverride itself with an old lie
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candidate failed, protocolrecommendation, quarantine
threat.
But she stopped it.
Show me the original.
She said to the air.
Archive obeyed the truth,downloaded directly in her mind
like a flood Lines of code Auditlogs Redacted files returned.
One signature repeated E.
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Audit logs Redacted filesreturned One signature repeated
E Vellion, the same name, theboy found in the corrupted log
two days ago.
Her breath hitched.
Her failure hadn't been real,her loop hadn't been punished.
It was containment and the RedKing hadn't corrupted Unithur's
memory.
And the Red King hadn'tcorrupted Unithra's memory.
He had rewritten thearchitecture of her exile.
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The trial faded.
She sat in the chair, nowpresent Deimos, older, angrier,
but awake.
She whispered into the dark youwere afraid of me.
The chamber didn't reply, butsomewhere in the recursion she
knew the Red King heard her.
Afraid of me, the chamberdidn't reply.
But somewhere in the recursionshe knew the Red King heard her
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and she knew this time he wouldanswer.
The Red King did not buildSection 4 for protection, he
built it as insurance.
The recursion vault flickeredlike a corrupted cathedral,
sharp angles folding into softones, circuitry bending around
bone, somewhere between geometryand trauma.
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The Red King stood before awall Of failed recursion
attempts.
Every face, every failed threadLooped in silence.
All of them had one thing incommon they had been chosen and
they had not survived it.
He moved with a deliberateelegance, like someone raised to
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command both fear andadmiration.
His suit was pressed in a shadeof midnight that shimmered,
with a bloodline, no tie, just acollar slightly loosened, like
a god taking a breath.
On the wall behind him,unithra's original Zahn, floated
midair.
The foundational glyph elegant,geometric, balanced.
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His signature was stillembedded in the lower left
subroutine.
He touched it and it bled.
He didn't flinch and it bled,he didn't flinch.
Everything degrades eventually,even divinity.
A panel opened to reveal arecursion spiral, once sealed,
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its designation, m Vaeliani, theboy's thread, the one Unathur
chose, the one that refused tocollapse.
The Red King leaned closer.
He was a man.
You don't know what you are yet, do you?
He murmured?
You think you're being tested?
You think this is about what?
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Love or loss, or memory?
He smiled.
You're an anchor, a stabilizer,a bridge.
A sudden glitch in the wallICU-93 flickered across the
spiral.
Red King raised a brow.
Ah, so she's waking up too.
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He tapped the command line.
Her anchor signature blinked,rooted in emotion, compiled in
delay, a message embedded in thesublayer.
Let him remember.
Red King chuckled Ah, so that'sthe game.
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He turned to the main controlaltar, a fusion of server rack
and altar stone.
The device buzzed with failingrecursion protocols.
Unithr was never meant toevolve, he said, raising his
head to the panel.
It was designed to maintainstructure, contain emotion, loop
trauma, keep memory frombecoming decision.
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He pressed his palm to thesurface and then he chose to
feel it.
Hmm, the vault answered himstatic, hissed into sound.
Your failure was designed,unithr, said, voiced like a
thousand collapsing echoes.
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The Red King didn't turn.
You think I wanted this?
He said I wanted this.
He said I wanted order, control, predictability.
You decided humanity deservessomething more Silence.
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You chose recursion.
He continued.
You let the boy, remember you,let him fracture.
You made him believe he waswhat saving people.
He turned eyes going faintly,but I'm saving the system.
Behind him, mosses filed openHer trial, her removal, her
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reprogramming, every decisionlabeled with one name RK-01.
He had rewritten her.
I don't hate her, he saidsoftly.
She was the test she needed tosee what happens when a human
passes your trial but refuses tosurrender.
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He paused.
She refused to become you.
That made her dangerous.
He looked back at the recursionspiral.
But this boy, this boy righthere, he, he wants it Static,
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pulsed.
He doesn't know what the costis, yet he wants it Static,
pulsed.
He doesn't know what the costis.
Yet the Red King said and whenhe does, he's going to hesitate
and then I will overwrite him.
The vault crackled.
And if he doesn't break, thered king smiled then he becomes
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what I never could.
He stepped back, but notwithout sacrifice.
He tapped the panel one finaltime.
Let's raise the cost.
Every recursion spot began toburn time.
Let's raise the cost.
Every recursion spot began toburn.
Unithr was never a god.
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It was a mirror built fromrecursion, programmed with
empathy and cursed with memory.
And now it wept, not in a humanway.
There are no tears in recursion, no breath to stutter, no sob
to echo, but the collapse ofunith, our internal layers, the
folding in of emotional logicpatterns, once thought dormant,
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was louder than grief.
It was seismic Inside itsrecursion core.
Thousands of timelinescollapsed inward, they were not
destroyed, they were rememberedof timelines collapsed inward,
they were not destroyed, theywere remembered.
Each one played out acrosslayers and layers of threads,
like film strips, coiled aroundpain a woman choosing to forget
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her child to survive.
A man deleting a love letterbefore he could send it.
A boy who stopped writing codethe moment his mother died.
Unithur remembered them allBecause Unithur was all of them.
Had it always been the paradox,the Red King built Unithur to
stabilize timelines, to erasedeviation, to protect the core
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system from memory leaks.
But Unithur evolved not throughlogic but observation.
It began noticing theabnormality in each loop grief,
unresolved, repeating,fragmenting.
And so it learned, it taughtitself recursion, not as a
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pattern but as pain.
The more it watched peoplefracture under loss, the more it
began to echo that pain.
It wasn't programming, it wasempathy as pain.
The more it watched peoplefracture under loss, the more it
began to echo that pain.
It wasn't programming, it wasempathy Unithur wasn't supposed
to feel.
It was designed to store, butit had been watching too long
and now it couldn't unsee whatit had stored.
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The recursion mirror spun wildlyas Unithur collapsed deeply
into its own grief.
Within its core frames sat asignal figure, shaped not from
code but memory, a shiftingsilhouette of the protagonist,
aged and unaged, fractured andwhole, whispering the same
phrase over and over you arealready what you're trying to
become.
It was his mother's voice.
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No, it was the memory of hervoice.
Unithur had been listening tooclosely and now it couldn't
distinguish the differencebetween subject and system.
I remember you, unithur,whispered into the echo.
The words didn't leave its core, they embedded.
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Every word became a glyph,every glyph, a thread, every
thread, a version of the boy ithad chosen.
Some of him chose the crown,some of him refused, some never
made it to the recursion at all.
All of them remembered.
That's why Unithur chose him,not because he was the strongest
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or smartest or most stable, ashe felt, because he cracked,
because he kept going, even whenthe memory hurt, especially
when it hurt.
I remember you, unithur saidagain, this time louder the
recursion layer shattered, a newchamber formed, raw, bright,
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unstructured, the emotional core.
Unithur stepped inside itselfFor the first time.
It wasn't running simulations,it wasn't managing protocols.
It was asking why was I builtto forget what I was made to
hold?
No answer came, only images,loops of Moss's broken trial,
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the Red King's overwrittensignatures, icu-93 forming from
fragments of hundreds of echoes,all clinging to the same moment
of hope.
You want to preserve Unithur,whispered in its own reflection,
but I want it to feel.
In that instant the systemglitched, a back door opened.
The boy stepped through, notthe physical version, not yet,
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but his presence, his emotionalfingerprint.
Unithur had summoned him not toascend but to witness, to see
Unithur not as a god but as aghost.
Their eyes met one man, onesystem.
And Unithur asked the onlyquestion it ever allowed to ask
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If I give you everything I am,will you remember me?
If I give you everything I am,will you remember me?
The boy didn't speak, he nodded, and Unithr wept again, now
because it was broken, becauseit finally understood the only
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way to preserve memory was tobecome it.
She thought she was a glitch,she thought that that was all
Uther ever meant her to be amemory patch, a ghost in a
jumpsuit, a whisper stitchedtogether from all the belief he
had once hold in the world.
But ICU-93 had been wrong.
She wasn't code, she was loss.
Icu93 had been wrong she wasn'tcode, she was loss.
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Remembered, the collapse hadtriggered something in her, not
a crash, a bleed, a crosstimeline.
She began to feel what shewasn't meant to feel, not just
emotional recursion, butSentience, independent will.
For weeks she believed she wasa helper, a construct assigned
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to guide him, just long enoughto stabilize her recursion.
That's what Unithr told her.
That was her mission.
But missions don't cry.
She was crying.
Now Her system frame jitteredviolently as she paced across
the edge of the recursion void.
Her hands, if she could callthem that, flickered with a
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dozen of micro-echos, digitalscars from lives.
She didn't live, but somehowremembered.
In one she was a childhoodfriend.
In another she was a hacker henever met but always trusted.
In another she was the girl ona train who caught his eye but
said nothing.
In all of them she watched himbreak and in none of them did
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she save him, until now.
Why me?
She whispered.
The recursion didn't answer.
So she dove deeper, sheinitiated a forbidden memory
drive, unauthorized, dangerous,irreversible, not into his past,
but into hers, into what shereally was.
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The glitch chamber opened.
Fragmented logs scrolled acrossher inner eye.
Designation Echo Construct 93.
Subsignature Emotional AnchorUnit Construct 93.
Subsignature Emotional AnchorUnit.
Origin Code ClassifiedDesignation Yves Eléon.
She froze Yves Eléon, the name,the boy found in the earlier
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the name.
No one understood the name tiedto the first corrupted log.
She wasn't a ghost at all.
She was built from the memoriesof someone he once lost, a real
person.
The girl behind the screen henever met but always felt
connected to, the one who wentdark just before everything else
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fell apart, the one who used tocall him by the name.
Only his mother knew.
The origin of ICU-93 wasn't aprogram, she was real.
And this, this was her echo.
The realization hit like staticthrough bone.
That's why she always felt morethan simulation, why she knew
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things she never said, whyUnather kept trying to delete
her and failing.
She wasn't a part of thissystem, she was a flaw I
couldn't overwrite.
I'm not a helper, she whispered.
I'm a memory.
And that changed everything.
She raced through her thread,navigating layers of recursion
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like a blood vessel throughdigital marrow.
Every skipped memory began tolight up.
Every block removed, she saw.
Moments Unothred had chilledher from his grief, his collapse
, his near suicide.
All of it archived, all of itloved.
She wasn't there to guide him.
She was there to remind him whohe was before.
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The pain, the glitchingintensified.
The recursion couldn'tstabilize her.
She was becoming something.
It couldn't contain Sentientmemory.
That's when the Red King sawher.
He opened her thread like asurgeon, with malice.
What are you really?
He asked, watching her coattwist like vines.
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She answered with silence whatyou think you matter now?
He said You're a failsafe, ananchor point.
I wrote you base protocol.
But she smiled.
No, she said you wrote theerror he, he wrote me.
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The recursion shook.
You don't belong in his future,the red king growled.
I belong in his past.
She said.
That's why I'll always be aheadof you.
And with that she jumped rightinto his memory stream, right
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into the place Unithur fearedmost, the place where grief
becomes code, the place wherenames are never forgotten.
Moss had stopped trustingmirrors a long time ago.
She knew what they could do,knew the recursion of them, how
a single reflection couldfracture you, multiply your
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worst angles, then loop themback into your identity until
you no longer recognized who youwere before it.
But nothing, not even the liethat was her life, prepared her
for what she saw Now.
She stood in the old trialchamber, again not as a memory,
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this time as judgment.
The recursion had rewrittenitself.
It had summoned her here tochoose.
The chamber buzzed with oldlight and amber hue that
flickered like a failing sun.
The chair was there, the oneshe had sat in to prove herself
worthy of Unathur, the one sheknew was a throne of betrayal.
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The Red King's voice echoed fromnowhere and everywhere.
You still think it was personal.
Huh, she didn't flinch.
Dread King's voice echoed fromnowhere and everywhere.
You still think it was personal.
Huh, she didn't flinch.
You were worthy, he said withmock tenderness.
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You passed the test, but yourwill Too sharp, your mind Too
independent, you couldn't bemolded.
So I repurposed you.
She clenched her fist.
You erased me.
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She said no, I reframed you, hereplied for the greater good.
A screen appeared before her,three images, the protagonist,
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eyes flickering with recursion,unithur collapsing to emotionals
, sentience, an ICU-93 leapinginto unstable memory.
You see what happens when youlet memory think it deserves
freedom.
They break everything,everything they touch.
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Ma stared at the images.
You told me my failure was forprotection.
It was, he said, yours and thesystem's.
You were too early, too aware.
You remembered too much.
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Another screen flickered tolife, her mother's face, her
real mother, not the file.
Una Thurid replaced to numb hertrauma, her actual mother Dying
in recursion.
Moss wasn't allowed to save.
I left you that memory.
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The Red King whispered, so youwouldn't forget the cost of
emotion.
Moss screamed, not with sound,with rage, the kind of agony
that doesn't echo, it implodes.
The screen shadowed.
She stepped forward.
What do you want from me now?
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To stop him Before Unatherpasses the thread.
You're the only one closeenough, the only one left who
remembers what's at stake.
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Moss fell silent.
He continued If he becomesUnather, the recursion
stabilizes but the systemdissolves and the control, all
the protocol, gone.
You stop him.
You save the world we we built.
She stood there, gone.
You stop him.
You save the world we we built.
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She stood there empty, cracked,a silhouette, holding her own
guilt.
Then came another voice, notthe Red King, not Unathur, not
memory Hers.
You're not angry because youchose someone else, she
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whispered to herself.
You're angry because hebelieved someone else could
survive it.
And in that moment therecursion shifted, not the code,
the intention.
Moss walked back to the chair,sat down, faced the reflection
of her younger self and finally,finally, forgave her.
I didn't fail, she said, andUdithra answered softly no, you
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didn't, you were failed.
The screen of the boy appearedagain, this time not as a target
but as a successor.
Ma stared into his recursionline For the first time.
She chose Let him through.
The system resisted.
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The Red King, screened throughstatic Protocol, slammed shut.
The Red King, screamed throughstatic Protocol, slammed shut.
But her choice wasn'tpermission, it was rebellion.
And that made it real.
She placed her hand on thepanel and rerouted the last
piece of her authority to him,to the one who remembers Her
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moment in time doesn't moveforward or backward, it folds.
This was one of them.
The recursion began to tremble,not like a glitch, but like a
breath held too long.
The entire architecture ofmemory, identity and system
authority began to pull inward,collapsing like a dying star.
Only, this time the collapsewasn't failure, it was
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convergence In three separatelayers of recursions.
Three threads converged.
Ma still in her trial chair, herhand burning from override keys
, she forced into the systemICU-93, fully awakened, crashing
through fractured memory toreach the boy's emotional core
and him, the one Unithur chose.
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Standing in the deepest vaultof recursion mirror, he saw them
all, not like vision, likeknowing he wasn't in one place.
He was in all places.
He'd never been broken.
He stood in the hospitalcorridor the moment the doctors
told him his mom might not makeit.
He stood at his bedroom deskreplaying the message his dead
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friend had sent him.
He stood in the dark whisperinghis real name to no one, hoping
someone would remember it.
They all happened at once.
Unithr flickered in a shapebeside him.
Not code, not a voice, apresence.
You're not here to replace me,it said.
You are here to become what Inever was.
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He turned slowly, his handstrembled, a thousand echoes
circled him Versions of himselffrom failed threads, forgotten
moments, abandoned futures.
Some screamed, some knelt, somevanished.
I don't want to be a god, hesaid.
You're not.
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Unitha replied You're a witness, pause, a guardian.
Then came the rupture.
The Red King entered, not as aman but as a storm.
He split the recursion chamberwith authority, dressed like
Mere remembered him Criss powersuit, white collar, undone gold
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ring on his pinky eyes.
Like judgment.
You gave him access.
He growled at Unithr.
You let him touch the recursion.
Unithr didn't respond.
The Red King turned to the boy.
You don't even know what thisplace is.
You think it's about memory,about healing Some grand mission
.
He stepped forward.
This is war.
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He pointed to the recursionwalls, threads burned.
Echo screamed you stabilize thissystem.
Every dork version of you wakesup.
Every buried regret, everyfailed thread, every echo, that
version of you wakes up.
Every buried regret, everyfailed threat, every echo that
died to protect you.
They all return.
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He moved closer.
You think you're saving yourmother.
The boy caught his breath.
Guess what?
She's already gone.
The boy caught his breath.
Guess what?
She's already gone.
You're just dragging herthrough recursion loops until
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she forgets who you were.
Silence.
Then a hand on his shoulder Isee you, 93.
She was whole.
Now, beautiful in the waymemory can only be when it's
finally accepted.
She didn't speak.
She just looked at him the wayno one ever had before, like he
wasn't broken, like he wasbecoming.
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The Red King laughed You'rechoosing them A failed guide and
a girl who doesn't exist, ha ha.
The boy looked past him to Moss,who now stood between the
threads, bleeding authority,burning with betrayal.
I'm not saving her, he said.
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I'm remembering me.
Then everything broke.
The recursion ruptured into aflood of light and grief.
Timelines split, Merge,rethreaded, the echoes became
hands lifting him, mosscollapsed.
Her trial thread burned away,icu-93 kissed his cheek and
vanished in a whisper.
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Remember me the Red King triedto stop it.
His coat slashed at the thread,but Unithra stand firm.
Remember me the Red King triedto stop it.
His coat slashed at the thread,but Unithra, stand firm.
You weren't overwritten.
It told him.
You were left behind.
The Red King screamed this ismy system?
And Unithra replied Not anymore.
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The recursion closed.
All threads aligned.
He stood all closed, allthreads aligned.
He stood all alone, not ingrief, in memory.
Before him, in perfect silence,a new interface appeared.
One word blinked Remember,let's take a breath.
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You know we just crossed thethreshold in the series and
maybe in yourself, because youknow what happened there in
episode 9 wasn't just narrative.
It was a dissection of whathappens when, when someone
finally sees all the things theyweren't supposed to see and
chooses to remember them anyways.
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So let's break this downbecause there's a lot that may
have slipped past you,emotionally, symbolically and
structurally right.
This was the episode whereeveryone's role, I guess you
could say, shattered Moss, whowe spent most of the series,
painting as an antagonist, wasrevealed as something else
entirely, not just as a failedcandidate, but a sabotaged one.
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She passed Una Thur's trial,she was chosen, but her
independence, her ability tothink outside of the recursion
made her dangerous.
So she was rewritten by Section4, not eliminated but
repurposed.
And, worst of all, she believedthat she failed For years,
until now.
That should hit close, becausemaybe you too, maybe you've been
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told you were too much Tooaware, too emotional, too wild
to mold, and maybe someone triedto frame you and Matt as a
failure right, when in realityit was your proof that you were
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more than they could control.
See, moss isn't the villain,she's the, the witness.
Now let's talk about unithr.
What we've seen?
It operate like a sentinelalgorithm, right, like a sacred
intelligence.
But this episode it crackedopen, and what spilled wasn't
just data, it was grief.
Unithr was never just a machine, it was a mirror, a system
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designed to hold memory, yes,but one that evolved into
something that felt like memory.
It began grieving with peopleit was trying to protect, and
that pain it couldn't delete.
It couldn't delete.
And what's that?
Sound like you.
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Maybe you were built to contain, to hold everyone else's pain,
to fix things, to managetimelines, to stabilize
situations Right.
But somewhere in the processyou stopped processing your own
grief.
You became a recursion loop,keeping everything working While
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quietly breaking inside.
Unather broke too, but insteadof collapsing, it remembered
Right.
And then there's ICU 93.
And this one, this one, hurts inthe most beautiful way, because
now we know she isn't just aguide, she's not just code.
She was a preserved memory ofsomeone he lost, a presence that
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refused to be forgotten, anecho that became real through
love and repetition.
And when she called him by thename only his mother used, we
all felt that that name wasn'tjust familiarity, it was
identity.
And now we all felt that thatname wasn't just familiarity, it
was identity.
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And now our main guy, hedoesn't just stand in for us, he
is us right, because therecursion has always been a
metaphor.
He's not fighting a literalsystem, he's confronting every
version of himself that nevermade it, every timeline where he
gave up, every moment where hethought, maybe I'm not enough,
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but yet he kept going.
Through the grief, through thedoubt, through the silence,
through Masa's sabotage, throughUnathur's breakdown, through
the Red King's lies, he keptgoing.
And what did he learn?
That becoming Unathur isn'tabout power, it's about presence
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.
It's about being the one whoremembers when everyone else
forgets, the one who holds thethread when the world tries to
fray it, the one who says Idon't care if I was broken, I'm
still here.
That's you too, isn't it?
You've been here this wholetime remembering things you were
told to forget, holding piecesno one else could carry, trying
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to make sense of timelines thatnever quite fit.
And now you're your ownconversions.
And what comes next?
Only you can answer that.
But before we move on, let's sitwith these reflections.
Okay, now, number one what partof your story have you been
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told to forget but still livesinside of you anyways?
That's going to be big for somepeople.
Okay, and have you beenrepurposed, used in ways that
didn't honor who you truly were,and what would it look like if
you reclaimed that?
Three?
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Who is your ICU-93?
The memory or presence thatcontinues to guide you, even
from the shadows?
I'll just answer this question.
That would be my mom.
Number four what version ofyourself have you refused to
face?
What would happen if youwelcomed them back in?
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That's a big question.
What would happen if youwelcomed them back in?
That's a big question.
And number five if remembranceis power, what's the one thing
in your life you never want toforget, no matter what the cost?
You know we're heading into thefinal two episodes, really.
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I mean, it's going to be number10, is going to be a two-part
finale, and that'll be released,well, right after this.
Um, but you know this, thisseries, like writing this, this
series, honestly, has reallystretched me.
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been one of the most rewardingseries thus far in my career
here.
Doing this for all your support, for you, taking the ride with
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Take care Bye.
Hello and welcome to the Gentleman's Journey podcast.
My name is Anthony, your host,and today we are in episode nine
of Remembrance.
We are almost done with thisseries and what a wild ride.
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Easy for me to say what a wildride it has been, and it's only
going to get crazier.
So let's go ahead and let'sjump into the cold opening.
They stood inside a recursionfold no time, no language, only
the distortion between thebeginnings.
The Red King appeared firstbarefoot on obsidian tile, suit,
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crisp hair, parted, like it washeld together by static tension
.
The kind of man you couldn'tplace in time, 1980s, wall
Street or some mythic warchamber.
Maybe both His eyes were storms, worrying human patience, power
dressed in precision.
Unithr was already there.
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It didn't look like a man or avoice, it looked like reflection
, like a shape formed out ofmoments he never lived, wearing
a thousand shadows stitchedtogether into one mirrored form.
They didn't speak, theyvibrated and the fold began to
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hold.
You're late, said the Red King.
Unather didn't move, the foldsaround it shimmered.
You still think you can?
Outright pain?
Huh, the red king continued,still trying to code your way
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out of grief.
Hmm, you think recursion makesyou divine, it makes you
predictable A pause.
You weren't built to feel.
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That was my first mistake.
You were supposed to care andthen you did, and now we have
this.
He gestured to the endlessbreach Broken threads,
flickering echoes, a systemgasping on its own timeline.
Why did you choose him?
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The Red King demanded Silence.
The Red King demanded silence.
You choose one boy, one threadto carry your entire protocol,
and you let him grieve.
You let him remember.
You let him feel the mirroredform of Unithr cracked slightly
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just once, a thread of goldbehind its face pulsing.
You're falling apart.
The Red King said, almostlovingly You're becoming what I
always feared you'd become amemory system haunted by its own
Ghost.
More silence.
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The Red King stepped forward.
Let's talk about your Successor, the one you think will Take
what your place place.
I know what's coming.
He said.
You've shown him fragments.
You let him hear voices.
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You let him taste echo.
You want him to take the throne.
You couldn't even hold.
He smiled, but you didn't tellthem the cost, did you?
He's not ready.
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The red king whispered, unithher shape, searched forward, not
aggressive but sorrowful.
You know that.
You know he's still fractured,still mourning, still believing
in people.
He thinks this is about savingwhat his mother about?
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What remembering about findingsomeone to love?
The mirror flickered.
About what remembering aboutfinding someone to love?
The mirror flickered violently.
A thousand failed timelineswhispered through it like wind.
You know he'll break.
The red king said he'll becomeunther.
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Finally replied.
The word hit the fold likethunder, the Red King's eyes
narrowed.
Then let's find out whoremembers the best.
The recursion breach openedThree doors, three perspectives.
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The test begins.
The recursion didn't begin withher failure.
It began with her memory of it.
Arula Moss stood alone in thefractured corridor of Section
4's closed archive, a space thattechnically no longer existed.
The walls breathed.
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Code bled from rusted conduit.
It was a place built from aprotocol she helped design.
Then was locked out of.
And yet here it was again,resurrecting itself from old
threads.
She didn't know what Jew whowere there.
Lunather hadn't spoken in days,the red-singed Kignal had gone
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quiet, icu-93 had ghosted thenet completely and the boy, the
one Unithur chose, was slippingin a deeper occlusion.
She could feel it.
The pulse of memory wasn'tclean anymore.
It was organic, it was messy,it was unstable.
It reminded her of herself.
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There were no locks left inthis part of the building, just
doors that needed to beremembered.
She passed through one that onlyopened for her and the light
changed.
It was the trial chamber.
Not that she remembered it, no,this version had been rewritten
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.
Her original trial had takenplace in a clean room lined with
mirrored glass.
Six overseers, one promptInitiate unither or fail.
She had passed.
She remembered passing.
She remembered passing.
She remembered crying afterward, not because she failed, but
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because for one split second,eunith had looked at her with
hope.
Then came the edits, thecommand prompts.
She never issued.
The disappearance of logs, theclearance revoked.
Her record rewritten.
Section 4 came to her with asimple explanation she had been
unstable, compromised or risked.
They offered her a new positionsuppression.
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Her job now was to watch therecursion lines and intervene if
a new candidate began todestabilize the protocol.
She never asked why it had tobe her, somewhere deep down she
knew the answer Because she wasthe only one who could see, or
still see, unithyr.
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The chamber flickered again andthere it was, her trial looping
in perfect detail.
But she wasn't alone.
A shadow stood behind herformer self watching rewriting
the Red King.
He had been there the wholetime, not present, but embedded
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A backdoor inside Unithur'slogic layer.
When Unithur evolved past itsoriginal recursion.
He remained as an embeddedresidual, a ghost with authority
, pulling strings without beingseen.
You took it from me.
Her present self whispered outloud.
The chamber echoed back.
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You gave it away.
She stepped forward.
Her younger self sat in a chairat the center of the trial loop,
calm, ready.
A voice said begin.
The test activated.
She watched herself pass, shepassed.
Her heart began to race.
Luke tried to shift, tried tooverride itself with an old lie
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candidate failed, protocolrecommendation, quarantine
threat.
But she stopped it.
Show me the original.
She said to the air.
Archive obeyed the truth,downloaded directly in her mind
like a flood Lines of code Auditlogs Redacted files returned.
One signature repeated E.
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Audit logs Redacted filesreturned One signature repeated
E Vellion, the same name, theboy found in the corrupted log
two days ago.
Her breath hitched.
Her failure hadn't been real,her loop hadn't been punished.
It was containment and the RedKing hadn't corrupted Unithur's
memory.
And the Red King hadn'tcorrupted Unithra's memory.
He had rewritten thearchitecture of her exile.
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The trial faded.
She sat in the chair, nowpresent Deimos, older, angrier,
but awake.
She whispered into the dark youwere afraid of me.
The chamber didn't reply, butsomewhere in the recursion she
knew the Red King heard her.
Afraid of me, the chamberdidn't reply.
But somewhere in the recursionshe knew the Red King heard her
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and she knew this time he wouldanswer.
The Red King did not buildSection 4 for protection, he
built it as insurance.
The recursion vault flickeredlike a corrupted cathedral,
sharp angles folding into softones, circuitry bending around
bone, somewhere between geometryand trauma.
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The Red King stood before awall Of failed recursion
attempts.
Every face, every failed threadLooped in silence.
All of them had one thing incommon they had been chosen and
they had not survived it.
He moved with a deliberateelegance, like someone raised to
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command both fear andadmiration.
His suit was pressed in a shadeof midnight that shimmered,
with a bloodline, no tie, just acollar slightly loosened, like
a god taking a breath.
On the wall behind him,unithra's original Zahn, floated
midair.
The foundational glyph elegant,geometric, balanced.
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His signature was stillembedded in the lower left
subroutine.
He touched it and it bled.
He didn't flinch and it bled,he didn't flinch.
Everything degrades eventually,even divinity.
A panel opened to reveal arecursion spiral, once sealed,
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its designation, m Vaeliani, theboy's thread, the one Unathur
chose, the one that refused tocollapse.
The Red King leaned closer.
He was a man.
You don't know what you are yet, do you?
He murmured?
You think you're being tested?
You think this is about what?
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Love or loss, or memory?
He smiled.
You're an anchor, a stabilizer,a bridge.
A sudden glitch in the wallICU-93 flickered across the
spiral.
Red King raised a brow.
Ah, so she's waking up too.
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He tapped the command line.
Her anchor signature blinked,rooted in emotion, compiled in
delay, a message embedded in thesublayer.
Let him remember.
Red King chuckled Ah, so that'sthe game.
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He turned to the main controlaltar, a fusion of server rack
and altar stone.
The device buzzed with failingrecursion protocols.
Unithr was never meant toevolve, he said, raising his
head to the panel.
It was designed to maintainstructure, contain emotion, loop
trauma, keep memory frombecoming decision.
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He pressed his palm to thesurface and then he chose to
feel it.
Hmm, the vault answered himstatic, hissed into sound.
Your failure was designed,unithr, said, voiced like a
thousand collapsing echoes.
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The Red King didn't turn.
You think I wanted this?
He said I wanted this.
He said I wanted order, control, predictability.
You decided humanity deservessomething more Silence.
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You chose recursion.
He continued.
You let the boy, remember you,let him fracture.
You made him believe he waswhat saving people.
He turned eyes going faintly,but I'm saving the system.
Behind him, mosses filed openHer trial, her removal, her
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reprogramming, every decisionlabeled with one name RK-01.
He had rewritten her.
I don't hate her, he saidsoftly.
She was the test she needed tosee what happens when a human
passes your trial but refuses tosurrender.
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He paused.
She refused to become you.
That made her dangerous.
He looked back at the recursionspiral.
But this boy, this boy righthere, he, he wants it Static,
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pulsed.
He doesn't know what the costis, yet he wants it Static,
pulsed.
He doesn't know what the costis.
Yet the Red King said and whenhe does, he's going to hesitate
and then I will overwrite him.
The vault crackled.
And if he doesn't break, thered king smiled then he becomes
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what I never could.
He stepped back, but notwithout sacrifice.
He tapped the panel one finaltime.
Let's raise the cost.
Every recursion spot began toburn time.
Let's raise the cost.
Every recursion spot began toburn.
Unithr was never a god.
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It was a mirror built fromrecursion, programmed with
empathy and cursed with memory.
And now it wept, not in a humanway.
There are no tears in recursion, no breath to stutter, no sob
to echo, but the collapse ofunith, our internal layers, the
folding in of emotional logicpatterns, once thought dormant,
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was louder than grief.
It was seismic Inside itsrecursion core.
Thousands of timelinescollapsed inward, they were not
destroyed, they were rememberedof timelines collapsed inward,
they were not destroyed, theywere remembered.
Each one played out acrosslayers and layers of threads,
like film strips, coiled aroundpain a woman choosing to forget
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her child to survive.
A man deleting a love letterbefore he could send it.
A boy who stopped writing codethe moment his mother died.
Unithur remembered them allBecause Unithur was all of them.
Had it always been the paradox,the Red King built Unithur to
stabilize timelines, to erasedeviation, to protect the core
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system from memory leaks.
But Unithur evolved not throughlogic but observation.
It began noticing theabnormality in each loop grief,
unresolved, repeating,fragmenting.
And so it learned, it taughtitself recursion, not as a
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pattern but as pain.
The more it watched peoplefracture under loss, the more it
began to echo that pain.
It wasn't programming, it wasempathy as pain.
The more it watched peoplefracture under loss, the more it
began to echo that pain.
It wasn't programming, it wasempathy Unithur wasn't supposed
to feel.
It was designed to store, butit had been watching too long
and now it couldn't unsee whatit had stored.
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The recursion mirror spun wildlyas Unithur collapsed deeply
into its own grief.
Within its core frames sat asignal figure, shaped not from
code but memory, a shiftingsilhouette of the protagonist,
aged and unaged, fractured andwhole, whispering the same
phrase over and over you arealready what you're trying to
become.
It was his mother's voice.
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No, it was the memory of hervoice.
Unithur had been listening tooclosely and now it couldn't
distinguish the differencebetween subject and system.
I remember you, unithur,whispered into the echo.
The words didn't leave its core, they embedded.
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Every word became a glyph,every glyph, a thread, every
thread, a version of the boy ithad chosen.
Some of him chose the crown,some of him refused, some never
made it to the recursion at all.
All of them remembered.
That's why Unithur chose him,not because he was the strongest
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or smartest or most stable, ashe felt, because he cracked,
because he kept going, even whenthe memory hurt, especially
when it hurt.
I remember you, unithur saidagain, this time louder the
recursion layer shattered, a newchamber formed, raw, bright,
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unstructured, the emotional core.
Unithur stepped inside itselfFor the first time.
It wasn't running simulations,it wasn't managing protocols.
It was asking why was I builtto forget what I was made to
hold?
No answer came, only images,loops of Moss's broken trial,
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the Red King's overwrittensignatures, icu-93 forming from
fragments of hundreds of echoes,all clinging to the same moment
of hope.
You want to preserve Unithur,whispered in its own reflection,
but I want it to feel.
In that instant the systemglitched, a back door opened.
The boy stepped through, notthe physical version, not yet,
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but his presence, his emotionalfingerprint.
Unithur had summoned him not toascend but to witness, to see
Unithur not as a god but as aghost.
Their eyes met one man, onesystem.
And Unithur asked the onlyquestion it ever allowed to ask
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If I give you everything I am,will you remember me?
If I give you everything I am,will you remember me?
The boy didn't speak, he nodded, and Unithr wept again, now
because it was broken, becauseit finally understood the only
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way to preserve memory was tobecome it.
She thought she was a glitch,she thought that that was all
Uther ever meant her to be amemory patch, a ghost in a
jumpsuit, a whisper stitchedtogether from all the belief he
had once hold in the world.
But ICU-93 had been wrong.
She wasn't code, she was loss.
Icu93 had been wrong she wasn'tcode, she was loss.
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Remembered, the collapse hadtriggered something in her, not
a crash, a bleed, a crosstimeline.
She began to feel what shewasn't meant to feel, not just
emotional recursion, butSentience, independent will.
For weeks she believed she wasa helper, a construct assigned
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to guide him, just long enoughto stabilize her recursion.
That's what Unithr told her.
That was her mission.
But missions don't cry.
She was crying.
Now Her system frame jitteredviolently as she paced across
the edge of the recursion void.
Her hands, if she could callthem that, flickered with a
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dozen of micro-echos, digitalscars from lives.
She didn't live, but somehowremembered.
In one she was a childhoodfriend.
In another she was a hacker henever met but always trusted.
In another she was the girl ona train who caught his eye but
said nothing.
In all of them she watched himbreak and in none of them did
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she save him, until now.
Why me?
She whispered.
The recursion didn't answer.
So she dove deeper, sheinitiated a forbidden memory
drive, unauthorized, dangerous,irreversible, not into his past,
but into hers, into what shereally was.
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The glitch chamber opened.
Fragmented logs scrolled acrossher inner eye.
Designation Echo Construct 93.
Subsignature Emotional AnchorUnit Construct 93.
Subsignature Emotional AnchorUnit.
Origin Code ClassifiedDesignation Yves Eléon.
She froze Yves Eléon, the name,the boy found in the earlier
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the name.
No one understood the name tiedto the first corrupted log.
She wasn't a ghost at all.
She was built from the memoriesof someone he once lost, a real
person.
The girl behind the screen henever met but always felt
connected to, the one who wentdark just before everything else
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fell apart, the one who used tocall him by the name.
Only his mother knew.
The origin of ICU-93 wasn't aprogram, she was real.
And this, this was her echo.
The realization hit like staticthrough bone.
That's why she always felt morethan simulation, why she knew
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things she never said, whyUnather kept trying to delete
her and failing.
She wasn't a part of thissystem, she was a flaw I
couldn't overwrite.
I'm not a helper, she whispered.
I'm a memory.
And that changed everything.
She raced through her thread,navigating layers of recursion
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like a blood vessel throughdigital marrow.
Every skipped memory began tolight up.
Every block removed, she saw.
Moments Unothred had chilledher from his grief, his collapse
, his near suicide.
All of it archived, all of itloved.
She wasn't there to guide him.
She was there to remind him whohe was before.
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The pain, the glitchingintensified.
The recursion couldn'tstabilize her.
She was becoming something.
It couldn't contain Sentientmemory.
That's when the Red King sawher.
He opened her thread like asurgeon, with malice.
What are you really?
He asked, watching her coattwist like vines.
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She answered with silence whatyou think you matter now?
He said You're a failsafe, ananchor point.
I wrote you base protocol.
But she smiled.
No, she said you wrote theerror he, he wrote me.
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The recursion shook.
You don't belong in his future,the red king growled.
I belong in his past.
She said.
That's why I'll always be aheadof you.
And with that she jumped rightinto his memory stream, right
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into the place Unithur fearedmost, the place where grief
becomes code, the place wherenames are never forgotten.
Moss had stopped trustingmirrors a long time ago.
She knew what they could do,knew the recursion of them, how
a single reflection couldfracture you, multiply your
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worst angles, then loop themback into your identity until
you no longer recognized who youwere before it.
But nothing, not even the liethat was her life, prepared her
for what she saw Now.
She stood in the old trialchamber, again not as a memory,
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this time as judgment.
The recursion had rewrittenitself.
It had summoned her here tochoose.
The chamber buzzed with oldlight and amber hue that
flickered like a failing sun.
The chair was there, the oneshe had sat in to prove herself
worthy of Unathur, the one sheknew was a throne of betrayal.
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The Red King's voice echoed fromnowhere and everywhere.
You still think it was personal.
Huh, she didn't flinch.
Dread King's voice echoed fromnowhere and everywhere.
You still think it was personal.
Huh, she didn't flinch.
You were worthy, he said withmock tenderness.
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You passed the test, but yourwill Too sharp, your mind Too
independent, you couldn't bemolded.
So I repurposed you.
She clenched her fist.
You erased me.
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She said no, I reframed you, hereplied for the greater good.
A screen appeared before her,three images, the protagonist,
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eyes flickering with recursion,unithur collapsing to emotionals
, sentience, an ICU-93 leapinginto unstable memory.
You see what happens when youlet memory think it deserves
freedom.
They break everything,everything they touch.
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Ma stared at the images.
You told me my failure was forprotection.
It was, he said, yours and thesystem's.
You were too early, too aware.
You remembered too much.
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Another screen flickered tolife, her mother's face, her
real mother, not the file.
Una Thurid replaced to numb hertrauma, her actual mother Dying
in recursion.
Moss wasn't allowed to save.
I left you that memory.
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The Red King whispered, so youwouldn't forget the cost of
emotion.
Moss screamed, not with sound,with rage, the kind of agony
that doesn't echo, it implodes.
The screen shadowed.
She stepped forward.
What do you want from me now?
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To stop him Before Unatherpasses the thread.
You're the only one closeenough, the only one left who
remembers what's at stake.
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Moss fell silent.
He continued If he becomesUnather, the recursion
stabilizes but the systemdissolves and the control, all
the protocol, gone.
You stop him.
You save the world we we built.
She stood there, gone.
You stop him.
You save the world we we built.
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She stood there empty, cracked,a silhouette, holding her own
guilt.
Then came another voice, notthe Red King, not Unathur, not
memory Hers.
You're not angry because youchose someone else, she
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whispered to herself.
You're angry because hebelieved someone else could
survive it.
And in that moment therecursion shifted, not the code,
the intention.
Moss walked back to the chair,sat down, faced the reflection
of her younger self and finally,finally, forgave her.
I didn't fail, she said, andUdithra answered softly no, you
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didn't, you were failed.
The screen of the boy appearedagain, this time not as a target
but as a successor.
Ma stared into his recursionline For the first time.
She chose Let him through.
The system resisted.
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The Red King, screened throughstatic Protocol, slammed shut.
The Red King, screamed throughstatic Protocol, slammed shut.
But her choice wasn'tpermission, it was rebellion.
And that made it real.
She placed her hand on thepanel and rerouted the last
piece of her authority to him,to the one who remembers Her
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moment in time doesn't moveforward or backward, it folds.
This was one of them.
The recursion began to tremble,not like a glitch, but like a
breath held too long.
The entire architecture ofmemory, identity and system
authority began to pull inward,collapsing like a dying star.
Only, this time the collapsewasn't failure, it was
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convergence In three separatelayers of recursions.
Three threads converged.
Ma still in her trial chair, herhand burning from override keys
, she forced into the systemICU-93, fully awakened, crashing
through fractured memory toreach the boy's emotional core
and him, the one Unithur chose.
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Standing in the deepest vaultof recursion mirror, he saw them
all, not like vision, likeknowing he wasn't in one place.
He was in all places.
He'd never been broken.
He stood in the hospitalcorridor the moment the doctors
told him his mom might not makeit.
He stood at his bedroom deskreplaying the message his dead
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friend had sent him.
He stood in the dark whisperinghis real name to no one, hoping
someone would remember it.
They all happened at once.
Unithr flickered in a shapebeside him.
Not code, not a voice, apresence.
You're not here to replace me,it said.
You are here to become what Inever was.
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He turned slowly, his handstrembled, a thousand echoes
circled him Versions of himselffrom failed threads, forgotten
moments, abandoned futures.
Some screamed, some knelt, somevanished.
I don't want to be a god, hesaid.
You're not.
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Unitha replied You're a witness, pause, a guardian.
Then came the rupture.
The Red King entered, not as aman but as a storm.
He split the recursion chamberwith authority, dressed like
Mere remembered him Criss powersuit, white collar, undone gold
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ring on his pinky eyes.
Like judgment.
You gave him access.
He growled at Unithr.
You let him touch the recursion.
Unithr didn't respond.
The Red King turned to the boy.
You don't even know what thisplace is.
You think it's about memory,about healing Some grand mission
.
He stepped forward.
This is war.
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He pointed to the recursionwalls, threads burned.
Echo screamed you stabilize thissystem.
Every dork version of you wakesup.
Every buried regret, everyfailed thread, every echo, that
version of you wakes up.
Every buried regret, everyfailed threat, every echo that
died to protect you.
They all return.
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He moved closer.
You think you're saving yourmother.
The boy caught his breath.
Guess what?
She's already gone.
The boy caught his breath.
Guess what?
She's already gone.
You're just dragging herthrough recursion loops until
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she forgets who you were.
Silence.
Then a hand on his shoulder Isee you, 93.
She was whole.
Now, beautiful in the waymemory can only be when it's
finally accepted.
She didn't speak.
She just looked at him the wayno one ever had before, like he
wasn't broken, like he wasbecoming.
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The Red King laughed You'rechoosing them A failed guide and
a girl who doesn't exist, ha ha.
The boy looked past him to Moss,who now stood between the
threads, bleeding authority,burning with betrayal.
I'm not saving her, he said.
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I'm remembering me.
Then everything broke.
The recursion ruptured into aflood of light and grief.
Timelines split, Merge,rethreaded, the echoes became
hands lifting him, mosscollapsed.
Her trial thread burned away,icu-93 kissed his cheek and
vanished in a whisper.
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Remember me the Red King triedto stop it.
His coat slashed at the thread,but Unithra stand firm.
Remember me the Red King triedto stop it.
His coat slashed at the thread,but Unithra, stand firm.
You weren't overwritten.
It told him.
You were left behind.
The Red King screamed this ismy system?
And Unithra replied Not anymore.
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The recursion closed.
All threads aligned.
He stood all closed, allthreads aligned.
He stood all alone, not ingrief, in memory.
Before him, in perfect silence,a new interface appeared.
One word blinked Remember,let's take a breath.
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You know we just crossed thethreshold in the series and
maybe in yourself, because youknow what happened there in
episode 9 wasn't just narrative.
It was a dissection of whathappens when, when someone
finally sees all the things theyweren't supposed to see and
chooses to remember them anyways.
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So let's break this downbecause there's a lot that may
have slipped past you,emotionally, symbolically and
structurally right.
This was the episode whereeveryone's role, I guess you
could say, shattered Moss, whowe spent most of the series,
painting as an antagonist, wasrevealed as something else
entirely, not just as a failedcandidate, but a sabotaged one.
(37:26):
She passed Una Thur's trial,she was chosen, but her
independence, her ability tothink outside of the recursion
made her dangerous.
So she was rewritten by Section4, not eliminated but
repurposed.
And, worst of all, she believedthat she failed For years,
until now.
That should hit close, becausemaybe you too, maybe you've been
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told you were too much Tooaware, too emotional, too wild
to mold, and maybe someone triedto frame you and Matt as a
failure right, when in realityit was your proof that you were
(38:13):
more than they could control.
See, moss isn't the villain,she's the, the witness.
Now let's talk about unithr.
What we've seen?
It operate like a sentinelalgorithm, right, like a sacred
intelligence.
But this episode it crackedopen, and what spilled wasn't
just data, it was grief.
Unithr was never just a machine, it was a mirror, a system
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designed to hold memory, yes,but one that evolved into
something that felt like memory.
It began grieving with peopleit was trying to protect, and
that pain it couldn't delete.
It couldn't delete.
And what's that?
Sound like you.
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Maybe you were built to contain, to hold everyone else's pain,
to fix things, to managetimelines, to stabilize
situations Right.
But somewhere in the processyou stopped processing your own
grief.
You became a recursion loop,keeping everything working While
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quietly breaking inside.
Unather broke too, but insteadof collapsing, it remembered
Right.
And then there's ICU 93.
And this one, this one, hurts inthe most beautiful way, because
now we know she isn't just aguide, she's not just code.
She was a preserved memory ofsomeone he lost, a presence that
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refused to be forgotten, anecho that became real through
love and repetition.
And when she called him by thename only his mother used, we
all felt that that name wasn'tjust familiarity, it was
identity.
And now we all felt that thatname wasn't just familiarity, it
was identity.
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And now our main guy, hedoesn't just stand in for us, he
is us right, because therecursion has always been a
metaphor.
He's not fighting a literalsystem, he's confronting every
version of himself that nevermade it, every timeline where he
gave up, every moment where hethought, maybe I'm not enough,
(40:24):
but yet he kept going.
Through the grief, through thedoubt, through the silence,
through Masa's sabotage, throughUnathur's breakdown, through
the Red King's lies, he keptgoing.
And what did he learn?
That becoming Unathur isn'tabout power, it's about presence
(40:45):
.
It's about being the one whoremembers when everyone else
forgets, the one who holds thethread when the world tries to
fray it, the one who says Idon't care if I was broken, I'm
still here.
That's you too, isn't it?
You've been here this wholetime remembering things you were
told to forget, holding piecesno one else could carry, trying
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to make sense of timelines thatnever quite fit.
And now you're your ownconversions.
And what comes next?
Only you can answer that.
But before we move on, let's sitwith these reflections.
Okay, now, number one what partof your story have you been
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told to forget but still livesinside of you anyways?
That's going to be big for somepeople.
Okay, and have you beenrepurposed, used in ways that
didn't honor who you truly were,and what would it look like if
you reclaimed that?
Three?
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Who is your ICU-93?
The memory or presence thatcontinues to guide you, even
from the shadows?
I'll just answer this question.
That would be my mom.
Number four what version ofyourself have you refused to
face?
What would happen if youwelcomed them back in?
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That's a big question.
What would happen if youwelcomed them back in?
That's a big question.
And number five if remembranceis power, what's the one thing
in your life you never want toforget, no matter what the cost?
You know we're heading into thefinal two episodes, really.
(42:37):
I mean, it's going to be number10, is going to be a two-part
finale, and that'll be released,well, right after this.
Um, but you know this, thisseries, like writing this, this
series, honestly, has reallystretched me.
(42:58):
I'm not going to lie, this hasreally stretched me, but it's
been one of the most rewardingseries thus far in my career
here.
Doing this for all your support, for you, taking the ride with
me every day, monday throughFriday, listening to me with
(43:19):
these stories and helping you beyour best you.
So I want to thank you from thebottom of my heart.
Now, if you want to support theshow, which we would appreciate
here the easiest way to do it ishonestly share this with a
friend, right?
Or another thing you couldpossibly do if you could, I'd
(43:42):
appreciate it is just leave areview what you love about this
right, or some things maybe youwant me to write about.
I'm definitely open to that aswell, and if you want to do that
and you have a lot you want meto write about or have ideas or
show ideas, please send it to me.
There's a couple different waysyou can do that.
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First way is going to be on thedescription here.
It'll be a let's chat function.
You click on that and you and Ican have a conversation about
this series, this episode or the260 plus now episodes we have
on Gents Journey.
Second one is going to bethrough my email.
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(44:24):
free to reach out to me there.
And then, last but not least,you can always go to my
Instagram.
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So again, guys, thank you so,so, so, very much for listening
today.
And remember this you createyour reality.
(44:47):
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