Memory's Wake Omnibus: The Complete Illustrated YA Fantasy Series

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by Selina Fenech


  “She has already relived her memories once, now she has to start all over and what is more, now there are new horrible memories. What if you had to recall every single detail about your life? The bad stuff, the stuff you don’t want to talk about, the things that cut you the most? What if she doesn’t want to wake up?”

  “She wants to.”

  “Then why doesn’t she?”

  It’s okay. I’m here.

  Her mouth and eyes didn’t want to work yet. But her mind was waking up. It was giving names to the voices. And faces. And pasts. The exact shade of Will’s eyes and the bad haircut he got when he was eight. The color Eloryn’s cheeks turned at regular intervals. The corner of Roen’s mouth that twitched up when he was doing something charming. Erec’s sandy complexion that was so much like his brother, Peirs’s. Peirs, who died to save her. Clara, who died to save her sister, and had lived to flirt with every soldier in the palace.

  “If I had to live the worst again, I might never get out of bed,” she heard Erec say, and she knew he was thinking about Clara. It had only become clear after Clara was gone, the love he’d been harboring for her. Only clear to Memory now, now she remembered everything again.

  Will spoke, his voice low and hoarse. “There used to be a story about a prince who kisses the sleeping princess and brings her back to life. Just a fairy tale, but I wish I had that magic, some way to help her.”

  “Maybe I’ve been waiting for you to give it a try?” Memory croaked, her voice rough from sleep. She peeled dry eyes open and looked up at Will and her friends, standing around her bed. Daylight streamed through the window, making dust motes spark like pixies in the air.

  “Memory?”

  “Yes. It’s me. All of me.”

  Will fell on top of her on the bed, scooping her up. She could feel his heartbeat against her chest, then more arms wrapped them, and she heard the small, squeaking sobs of her sister and Roen’s relieved laughter.

  She took a moment to know them, really know them, to recall exactly who they were. Some of her memories were awful. She had done things and suffered things she almost couldn’t live with, but there were so many good moments too, memories of these people, her family.

  “I love my cuddle fests,” she sighed, nuzzling against her friends. Then she pushed them away. “But I smell food. Get me to the food, I’m starving! How long have I been sleeping here, a hundred years?”

  “Felt like it to me,” Will said.

  “It was barely two days,” Roen scoffed. “How you ever waited those sixteen years I’ll never know. This fellow is the most impatient person I’ve ever known.”

  “I’m so happy you’re home,” Eloryn said. She helped Memory out of bed, holding her hand and supporting her by the elbow on the other side. Memory noticed she was wearing her old broken heart t-shirt, and what seemed to be brand new sweat pants. She quirked an eyebrow, wondering where they came from, but was happy to be in their fleecy embrace regardless.

  In Memory’s living room, every surface was filled with bouquets and garlands of flowers, and mountains of cakes and pastries. Rainbow colored roses from Loredanna’s rose garden filled the room with a sweet scent, and… was that a cake shaped like a hamburger? No way.

  The thought of Clara, missing this, being gone from their lives, drilled a deep hole of pain in Memory’s heart. Alward, Thayl, Waylan, Peirs, Edele, Shonae, Clara. She remembered them all. She would never forget them again.

  Memory swiped the first delicacy that was within reach and bit through the flakey crust to the custard cream inside.

  Maeve entered the room, wearing a palace maid’s uniform and balancing another tray of food. Her wild mass of brown hair was bundled neatly atop her head and she looked stronger and healthier than ever. She stopped abruptly when she saw Memory awake and eating.

  “It is you!” she yelled, dropping the tray onto a table, and running in.

  Memory was enveloped in a huge and almost smothering hug and she laughed, “Yes, it is me. Sorry I was gone for so long. How are the kids?”

  “They are amazing, thanks to you and your friends. Some of them still have nightmares though, and might for a while yet.”

  “I’m sorry I didn’t ask about them sooner.”

  “How could you have?” Maeve said. She held up a fist, and Memory punched it three times then they both mimed an explosion.

  Memory laughed. “You were totally just testing if I really remembered, weren’t you?”

  “Maybe,” Maeve grinned. With Clara gone, Maeve had fought other servants off almost physically to be the one to take over her position as Memory’s only assistant. Maeve had known, even when Memory couldn’t, that it was what she would have wanted. Memory pulled the feisty girl back into a hug again as a silent thank you for that.

  They all sat down together, relaxing on the floor and chairs. Not talking, just eating in silence, knowing they were all together again and that that was enough. The friends that were missing weren’t completely gone. Memory closed her eyes for a moment, feeling the weight of them, their loss, their lives, in her chest. Holding onto every precious memory.

  She still felt fragile, brittle like fairy gold, from the return of her old memories. But she also felt stronger from the return of her newer ones. She no longer burned inside with all the excess magic she had felt her whole life. All that was left was just the normal, small Spark of Connection. No missing soul, no missing past, no longing for a family she didn’t know. She had everything she always wanted. She finally felt whole and complete.

  The rest of the day was spent much the same, just enjoying each other’s company within the small space of Memory’s chambers. After a while Erec and Maeve left together, and then Roen and Eloryn as well.

  Will hugged Memory close, and she leaned up to kiss him. His lips were warm and soft and she let herself melt into him. Memory closed her eyes, a smile blooming on her face. Finally, she was home.

  The End

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  Table of Contents

  The Memory’s Wake Trilogy Omnibus

  Copyright Information

  MEMORY’S WAKE

  Copyright Information

  About This Story

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

 
Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  HOPE’S REIGN

  Copyright Information

  About This Book

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  PROVIDENCE UNVEILED

  Copyright Information

  About This Book

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-One

  Chapter Thirty-Two

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Epilogue

  A Personal Thank You from Selina

  Table of Contents

 

 

 


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