As she stood in the crowd of his concert, camera raised amid the blur of lights and sound, their eyes met through the lens—
and the world stopped.
To everyone else, it looked like a moment frozen in artistry—
the celebrity pausing mid-performance, the photographer catching the perfect shot.
But she knew.
He knew.
It wasn’t the lens between them that held their gaze.
It was something older.
Something buried deep beneath skin and time.
A pulse rippled through her chest—familiar, aching.
Memories she did not own flickered behind her eyes:
a battlefield, a dance, a wedding beneath an ancient moon.
She didn’t understand them, yet her soul did.
For one suspended heartbeat, she felt it all—
the weight of every life they had loved and lost.
Her hand trembled. The camera clicked.
And when the shutter fell, the spell broke.
But the ache remained—
that cruel, beautiful ache
of remembering someone your mind has forgotten
but your soul never could.
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