I quietly walked away from the table before anyone could stop me. The archive windows overlooked endless snow covered forests stretching toward distant mountains and for several minutes I simply stood there watching snowflakes drift through the gray afternoon sky. Two years. Two years had vanished from my life before I was old enough to understand they existed. What happened during those missing years? Why couldn’t I remember them? Had I forgotten? Or had someone made sure I would? I wrapped my arms around myself with realizing it. “What if those memories never come back?” I asked and Drake quietly joined me at the window and he looked outside instead of directly at me. “Then they don’t.” He said “You make that sound easy.” I said. “It isn’t. But you’re blaming yourself for

