'What…' Ria muttered inwardly with a disturbed tone of voice. 'What in the world is happening?'
She was being cooed at by her father and mother, along with other family and friends who had visited the hospital. She had no agency in the memories even though she could feel her body.
This was the past.
She could only experience it once more, not live a life different from the one that she had already lived.
However, the memory she had had before waking up just then was being impaled by the faceless human at the center of the manifold. She had taken a gamble to try and kill the creature hastily so that she could save her friends. That was her last concrete memory. The very next moment, she woke up in her own memories.
