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Your memories make you who you are, you memory-killer.

No references found. Probably some kind of sportscar?

Remind yourself of who you are.

That must have been exactly how you looked when you first found him.

You watched her over the university courtyard, waited until she parted from a group of friends. You recognised her from the dossier -- the daughter of Dr Abe, head of the sleep study.

Operant CASCADE's first special bench. Filed: age 14. Location: Landau, capital of the Holy and Democratic Republic of Mircea.

Novessa, 81. Vodka, three-day old outfits, cigarettes. You all danced together to a half-broken speaker system in someone's kitchen. It was happiness, all the sweeter because it felt stolen.

One hit wonder by the False Midnights, who were blacklisted in the Superbloc for the song's irreverent lyrics about dating a communist girl. This only made the song more popular among Novessa's youth.

The musicians Septimus told you about.

La Luz: officially 'The Illuminated Empire'. An auto-technocratic regime which has emerged from its slumber in recent decades.

Ash on a black fur collar. Piercing blue eyes through smoke, a laugh that could turn wicked.

Tempo's favourite brand. The only person to actually enjoy their heavy flavour.

You've seen these before. Smoked them before. This was Tempo's brand.

No, no, no. This file was supposed to be destroyed. Don't bring it back!

Planisphaerium. Transubstantiation.

All true, none of it useful just now.

Suprema 100s. Cheap Superbloc export.

Memories of operant training, hours spent practicing modular addition. These mental muscles, long atrophied, begin to awaken.

A.k.a. 'The Freezer'. The Opera's labyrinthine archival complex. Where the old, useless, and discredited are consigned until they're dismissed or die of despair.

It's always been her, she's the problem.

You recognise the name on the disc -- Eloísa Alba -- from the 'Weaponised Boredom' section of Petre's music stall. In other words: 'free jazz'.

The name on the disc -- Eloísa Alba -- seems vaguely familiar. You're pretty sure she was an experimental composer -- some sort of 'free jazz' artist?

Ran afoul of the Azzurri mob, as rumour has it.

Bits of paper... like the one the little girl delivered you?

Length of time he's been waiting for you to walk through the door: unknown.

Tempo used to swill the coffee around his mouth, then spit it back with a muttered 'mierda de cerdo'.

Operant CASCADE's penultimate expense tally included a handwritten note. 'Asset VIRTUE -- debt to the Opera: value, 1 schnapps, redeemable at any time.'

Carabineros: Portofiro's sanctioned police investigators. They report directly to the Prefectura and deal in actual crime -- murder, grand larceny, rape.

Sweet Nestor, Portofiro's supreme leader from the years 28 to 80.

A chime echoes somewhere in the back of your memory... 'Re-no-tel'.

Is there any part of you left that's still of Mircea?

You can only remember being employed as a spy.

Your short-term memory is being severely tested. Fried, even.

The GM who was guarding that room said it was where the water-lock controls were located.

The day the leaves fall from the ginkyo is a day of transformation -- he told you himself.

The result of non-competitive bidding and a bit of self-dealing on the part of the city's governing elite.

Your obsessions and secret passions have saved you more than once, and may yet again.

The memories of your own past claw away inside you.

La Luz. Once a powerful empire, now reconstituted as a modern techno-fascist state, the rising military and cultural power of the day.

Renotel. A diversified communications company local to the state of Portofiro. Immediately recognisable by its dolphin logo.

What tree is this?

If the words of the old Luzian prisoner are true, you have days, not weeks.

You'd remember a name that stupid.

The boat thing.

Tanka Hônen survived his assassination of East Kodian opposition leader Reido Saiji, whom he shot twice with a homemade firearm at a train station opening ceremony.

Archive yields zero results, bar a few unsolved mysteries where the perpetrator was never uncovered.

In certain cultures, a final sacrament offered to terminal patients and prisoners about to be executed.

Dolphin pods are known to ingest toxic animals and copulate for recreational purposes.

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