“I had thought, foolishly, that knowledge could survive anything. That memory, if carefully preserved, would always endure, but now I saw the brutal truth. It wasn’t fire or war or overt violence that erased a people; it was forgetting. Quiet, systemic forgetting.”
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The Heir of Ash and Thunder
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