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The Red Lily I Chose to Forget englishsub fullmovie❤️🍿 Burning Heart
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00:00I paid a fortune to wipe my memory clean.
00:03I forgot the fiancé who forged me from a street kid into a blade.
00:07I forgot the girl I once saved off a trafficking line,
00:09who then stole everything I had.
00:11I only remembered life before 18.
00:14Rainy nights, the orphanage,
00:16the bitter taste of cheap coffee,
00:18and one old poetry book, swollen from water.
00:22Three years later, I ran a used bookshop in Palermo.
00:25That dusk, the shop was empty.
00:27The bell over the door suddenly rang.
00:30Three men in black suits stepped out of the shadows.
00:34The lead one peeled off his leather gloves.
00:36His voice was low.
00:37Nightshade, why did you never answer the Don's recall?
00:41I stopped sliding a book back onto the shelf.
00:45Sorry, you have the wrong person.
00:49He took a step closer.
00:53Luca Moretti drowned the whole commission in blood for you.
00:58And you don't even give one explanation?
01:02The shop went so quiet, I could hear a motorbike pass the corner.
01:06I looked at him.
01:07My chest ached for no reason.
01:09I had a memory override once.
01:12I kept my voice polite.
01:14Who is this Luca Moretti you're talking about?
01:16All three men froze at once.
01:20I followed their eyes to the other side of the street.
01:23A man stood in the dusk.
01:26Black coat.
01:27Tall.
01:28Lean.
01:30I didn't know him.
01:31But he looked at me like I had once killed him with my own hands.
01:37Later I learned his name was Luca Moretti.
01:42He was once my fiancé.
01:45He was also the man who drove me onto that operating table.
01:49It all began at dawn, on the day of our wedding.
01:52That night the terrace of Villa Moretti was still lit.
01:56White roses filled the small chapel.
01:58Everyone was waiting for me to become Mrs. Moretti.
02:01But I couldn't find Luca.
02:03I went around the long hall and pushed open the terrace door.
02:06And I saw him holding Mia Belliani in his arms.
02:09She rose on her toes and kissed his lips.
02:12I didn't cry.
02:14I didn't scream.
02:15I was Nightshade.
02:17Red Lily's sharpest cleaner.
02:20Before my emotions broke, my body moved first.
02:24I struck for Luca's throat.
02:25My fingertips stopped on his artery.
02:28Mia screamed and threw herself at me.
02:30Ballalina, don't hurt him!
02:32The next second, she shoved me into the pool.
02:36My head hit the wall.
02:38Cold water flooded my mouth.
02:40I opened my eyes underwater and almost laughed.
02:43Five years ago, I pulled Mia off a trafficking line.
02:46She was 15 then, thin as a sheet of paper.
02:50I taught her to read codes.
02:51I taught her to clean ledgers.
02:53She would make hot soup for the men after a job.
02:56She would say thank you in a trembling voice.
02:59Those blood-soaked men did no time.
03:02They said Red Lily finally had a real woman in it.
03:05When they said that, I was in the corner stitching a knife wound on my arm.
03:11Back then, Luca would frown, walk over, and take the needle from me.
03:16You're always harder on yourself than on the enemy.
03:18He tied the knot.
03:20I laughed at his shaking hands.
03:22Clumsy for a man who could strip a gun in three seconds.
03:26I believed that line.
03:28For ten years, we dodged hunters in the jungle.
03:33We emptied our magazines back-to-back in warehouses.
03:37We dragged each other out of blood at the docks.
03:40The first time I took the fall for him, I was locked for three days in the black site.
03:44He knelt outside the cell, eyes red enough to kill everyone.
03:47He said that for the rest of his life, he would never betray me.
03:50But a vow doesn't break in a single moment.
03:53It rots slowly from the first time someone starts playing favorites.
03:57I woke in the medical wing.
03:59I thought he would at least ask if it hurt.
04:02But when he spoke, his voice held only a tired warning.
04:06Mia was just scared.
04:09Don't use your night sheep methods on her.
04:12I looked at the old scar below his collarbone.
04:15Ten years ago, that bullet should have gone through my heart.
04:19You're afraid I'll deal with her in private?
04:25Red Lily forbids infighting.
04:27The wedding moves to next week.
04:29This ends here.
04:30The encrypt device by the bed bugged.
04:32Mia's name flashed on the screen.
04:34Luca glanced at it once.
04:35His brow tightened.
04:37She's having a panic attack.
04:38I'll go check on her.
04:39Luca.
04:40He stopped at the door.
04:42I asked him calmly.
04:44If it were her in the water tonight, would you also tell me it ends here?
04:48He didn't turn around.
04:50You're stronger than her.
04:51Don't waste my time on this.
04:53The door closed softly, but it was a nail pinning ten years of love to the bedside.
04:58My private terminal lit up with a black market ad.
05:03Phynex Protocol.
05:05Rebuild your identity.
05:07Seal your trauma.
05:09I stared at that line for a long time.
05:11A tainted blade can be reforged, but a tainted love is not worth polishing.
05:17I booked my first neural overwrite.
05:19After the first overrode, my mind felt rinsed in ice water.
05:23Many memories remained, but they were locked behind an invisible door.
05:27I knew I had been hurt, but I couldn't grasp the shape of the pain.
05:30The doctor told me that once the final overhaul was done, I would lose every emotional tie
05:34to red lily that had formed after I came of age.
05:38I signed the consent form.
05:41What if I regret it?
05:43The doctor didn't look up.
05:46Once you enter the final opera round, the regret gets overwrought too.
05:50I smiled.
05:54Good.
05:56When I got back to the safe house, a celebration was underway.
06:00Mia sat in the center, holding a diamond-set tactical watch.
06:04Lana Creechie saw me and rushed over.
06:06Nightshade, Mia gave us key intel on the Balkan contract.
06:11The Don praised her himself.
06:13She pushed the gift box into my hands.
06:15You brought her into the family.
06:16It's only right that you give it to her.
06:17I walked to Mia and held out the box.
06:20She reached for it.
06:21The instant our fingers touched, the box dropped.
06:24The sapphire face shattered, like a crushed eye.
06:27Mia's tears fell at once.
06:29Valentina, I know you hate me, but this is from everyone.
06:34Someone whispered.
06:36She went too far.
06:37A maid woman, fighting a young girl over a man.
06:40Luca rose from the fireplace.
06:42He came over, picked up the broken watch,
06:45and pressed it back into my palm.
06:50Apologize.
06:52I looked at him.
06:54You saw me drop it?
06:55I saw her cry.
06:56That line cut deeper than any blade.
06:58I set the broken watch on the table.
07:03Then keep watching her cry.
07:05Mia's sobbing paused.
07:06Then she lunged and wrapped herself around my legs.
07:08Sister, don't send me away.
07:10Those men out there will eat me alive.
07:12Her nails dug deep into my ankle.
07:14I stepped back on instinct.
07:16My knee gave a slight push.
07:17But Mia screamed and fell, her left hand bending at an unnatural angle.
07:21Luca shoved me aside and scooped her up.
07:24I hit the corner of the table.
07:26A dull pain spread through my side.
07:28You have disappointed me.
07:29I braced myself against the table and didn't look at anyone.
07:33Luca.
07:34I applied to leave Red Lily.
07:36The whole safe house went silent.
07:40Luca sneered.
07:42How many days do you think you'd survive outside the family?
07:49That's my business.
07:50You're just jealous.
07:51Cool off for a few days.
07:52The wedding goes on.
07:54That night, I went to Don Salvatore's study.
07:57The old man sat in shadow.
07:59A cigar between his fingers.
08:00Your contract debt was cleared long ago.
08:03He pushed an encrypted key to the edge of the desk.
08:06This is enough to start over anywhere.
08:08But those who leave Omara have no family behind them.
08:11I took the key.
08:12There was never anyone behind me to begin with.
08:14He looked at me for a long while.
08:16Are you certain you want to give up the night sheep seat?
08:18I looked down at my hands.
08:19These hands had cleared 27 targets for Red Lily.
08:22They had taken three fatal hits meant for Luca.
08:24They had carried me out of a shipping container.
08:27But now, they only felt dirty.
08:29I'm not giving up a seat.
08:30I pushed the resignation ship onto the desk.
08:33I'm giving up on them.
08:35On the way back to the safe house, Luca called.
08:38I answered by accident.
08:39Your folding blade is with me.
08:41It was the knife we had taken from a target's vault
08:43after our first job together.
08:44Luca had carved LM and VR into the handle.
08:47He said if he ever betrayed me,
08:49I could use it to stab through his heart.
08:51I went quiet for a moment.
08:53No need to send it.
08:55Nightshade.
08:55We made it through 10 years.
08:57Why blow up over a small thing with Mia?
08:59A small thing.
09:00I repeated those three words.
09:02The last bit of warmth in my body drained away.
09:04Late that night, Luca came anyway.
09:07He set the knife on my nightstand,
09:09like he was handing me a step towards peace.
09:11When I woke at dawn,
09:13I read the carving on the handle.
09:14LM and MB.
09:17That was not my knife.
09:19I opened the hidden drawer.
09:21My blade still lay there.
09:23Untouched.
09:24So even our token of life and death,
09:26he had copied a second one for Mia.
09:28I felt no anger.
09:30I just revoked the safe house primitutes.
09:32I took one bag and moved into a cash-only motel downtown.
09:36The noise of ordinary people came through the thin walls.
09:39For the first time,
09:41a stranger's world felt safer than home.
09:44However, the next morn,
09:46Luca issued an urgent order,
09:47requiring me to go to the medical wing.
09:49The moment I stepped into the hall,
09:51Luca burst out of a side door.
09:53He slammed me hard against the metal wall.
09:55His forearm pressed into my throat.
09:58What did you do to Mia last night?
10:00I was at the motel last night.
10:02Who else but you could have bypassed every camera,
10:06gotten into her room,
10:06and cut her alarm line.
10:08Lana and a few maid men stood behind him.
10:11No one moved.
10:11In the warn,
10:12Mia hugged her knees in the corner of the bed.
10:15As soon as she saw me,
10:16she let out a tearing scream.
10:19Don't let her near me!
10:21She said she'd send me back to those men!
10:24Luca let go of me.
10:25His voice went cold.
10:26Mia was diagnosed with severe PTSD.
10:28The doctor says her finger tendons are damaged.
10:31She'll never hold a gun steady again,
10:32so you'll face a disciplined hearing.
10:34I looked past his shoulder.
10:36Through the gap in the door,
10:37Mia was peeping me.
10:39Her face was wet with tears,
10:41but her eyes were utterly fearless.
10:43That was the look of a hunter
10:44who had just confirmed the trap had worked.
10:47I suddenly walked into the ward
10:49and stood in front of Mia.
10:51Was that person last night really me?
10:54Mia's pupils shrunk.
10:55The next second,
10:56she grabbed the metal cup from the bedside table
10:58and threw it at me.
10:59The rim grazed my brow.
11:00Blood slid down the corner of my eye.
11:02She shrunk behind Luca,
11:04crying so hard she could barely breathe.
11:05Don't touch me, sister.
11:07I'll give Luca back to you.
11:08Just let me go.
11:09Lana spoke first.
11:10Night show.
11:11Enough.
11:12She's terrified.
11:13And you're still pushing her?
11:15I wiped the blood from my eye.
11:17Lana,
11:18the year you tripped the alarm,
11:19I dragged you out of a pile of corpses.
11:21You owe me a life.
11:23And now you're spending it testifying for her?
11:25She looked away.
11:26One thing has nothing to do with another.
11:28I finally laughed out loud.
11:30Wonderful.
11:31It seems what Red Lovily taught you best was ingratitude.
11:35I looked at Luca.
11:36You want to judge me?
11:38I'm protecting the rules of the family.
11:40No, Luca.
11:42I wiped the blood from my lip.
11:44My voice was very soft.
11:47You're protecting her.
11:51Hours later,
11:52I woke in the Blacksite interrogation room.
11:55Restraints held my wrists and ankles.
11:58A thin sensor was taped beside my temple.
12:02Luca stood at the door,
12:03like a judge with no feeling.
12:05Valentina Rinaldi,
12:07you are charged with private violence against a family member
12:10in breach of Omagia.
12:12Where's the evidence?
12:14Mia's testimony.
12:15The medical records,
12:16the camera blind spot,
12:18snap your skill.
12:20I laughed.
12:21So skill can be evidence now?
12:23Luca's fingers paused on the discipline order.
12:26For one instant,
12:27I thought he would look at me.
12:29But he didn't.
12:30The pen came down.
12:31The signature was sharp.
12:34Begin.
12:35Two masked figures stepped closer.
12:37One drove a probe into the back of my neck.
12:40The torture leaned close to my ear and smiled.
12:42Don't worry.
12:44Someone gave special orders.
12:45There will be no scar on you.
12:47The moment the device started,
12:49pain exploded from my spine into my brain,
12:51as if someone were threading a red hot wire through every nerve I had.
12:55I bit through my lip.
12:56Blood filled my mouth.
12:57But I made no sound.
12:59Faint footsteps came from outside the wall.
13:01I knew Luca hadn't gone far.
13:04I also knew he would not come back.
13:06I don't know how long it lasted.
13:08The restraints loosened.
13:09I slid off the chair,
13:11not even feeling my nails tear and break.
13:13The next day,
13:14the door opened.
13:16Luca stood in the backlight.
13:17Exhaustion in his eyes.
13:19And a late, tangled something.
13:21So many eyes were watching last night.
13:23I had to give everyone an answer.
13:25I braced on the wall,
13:27stood,
13:27and walked around him.
13:31Done giving answers?
13:33Mia's cry came from the end of the hall.
13:35Luca, I'm so scared.
13:37His hand stopped in mid-air,
13:39then withdrew.
13:40Go back to your room.
13:41Don't cause more trouble.
13:43I watched him run towards that voice.
13:46My terminal buzzed.
13:48The final transfer had cleared.
13:50I flagged down a taxi
13:52and gave the address of Phoenix Clinic.
13:54The doctor attached the sensors to me
13:56and confirmed the final procedure.
13:58After the over-route,
13:59you'll forget Red Lily,
14:00forget Nightshake,
14:01and forget Luca Moretti.
14:04Will the body memory go too?
14:07No.
14:08So I might still flinch from gunfire.
14:11And I might still grip a knife
14:13that isn't there in my sleep.
14:15The doctor glanced at me.
14:17Yes,
14:18but you won't know why.
14:19That's enough.
14:20I nodded.
14:21He handed me one last document.
14:23That was a refusal of restoration clause.
14:27Once signed,
14:27no one could wake my memory
14:29in the name of lover,
14:30family,
14:31or guardian.
14:32I signed it fast.
14:33As the pen came down,
14:35the back of my hand still trembled
14:36from the nerve pain after to the torture.
14:38The doctor asked if I wanted to leave a message.
14:41I thought for a long time,
14:42then recorded these words.
14:45If Luca Moretti finds this place,
14:47please don't let him see me.
14:49I don't hate him.
14:51Hate still means remembering him.
14:53But I don't want to remember anymore.
14:55I closed my eyes.
14:59Begin.
15:02My consciousness was pulled away,
15:04piece by piece.
15:05Gunshots.
15:06Vows.
15:07The jungle.
15:08The carving on the knife.
15:09Luca's back once shielding me,
15:11all curling and blacking like old photographs.
15:14The last thing burned away
15:15was the part of me that loved him.
15:17Before the deep sleep took me,
15:19I had already arranged my own death.
15:21I bought an unidentified female body,
15:23a death certificate scorched by fire,
15:26a clean route to Sicily.
15:28I made every clue point to the eastern border,
15:30while the real me would be loaded onto a freighter
15:32bound for Polesmo,
15:33after the final overrode.
15:35When the doctor counted to three,
15:36I said one last line to Nightshale,
15:39in my heart.
15:39You did well.
15:40You can die now.
15:42After I disappeared,
15:44Luca had really come looking for me.
15:45It was the third day after my overhoad.
15:48He went to the safe house.
15:49First, he wanted to swap back the knife
15:51with the wrong name
15:51and to end the Cold War with a new ring.
15:53But the fingerprint scanner flashed red.
15:56It let out a harsh rejection tone.
15:58He tried again.
16:00Still red.
16:00The permission had been permanently revoked.
16:03He called in the family's cleanup staff.
16:05The man pulled up the back ward
16:07and his face dartened.
16:10Boss,
16:11profile status is permanent separation.
16:13Signed off by the Don himself three days ago.
16:16Luca stared at that line
16:17and didn't move for a long time.
16:19Where did she go?
16:21There's no destination in the system.
16:23What did she take?
16:25One bag.
16:26One encrypted fund.
16:28The man paused.
16:30And all her operation records.
16:32She wiped and cleaned herself.
16:35Luca rushed into my room.
16:38The closet,
16:39empty.
16:39The drawers,
16:40empty.
16:41Even the pen I used was gone.
16:43Only the knife he'd sent lay on the nightstand.
16:45LM and MB.
16:46He finally read the names on the handle.
16:48In that moment,
16:49he felt uneasy for the first time.
16:51But he still didn't think of the worst.
16:52He thought I was only hiding for a few days.
16:54He thought I would come back on my own
16:56like every other fight before.
16:57But he didn't know I had deleted the option of coming back
17:00with my own hands.
17:01Mia moved into Luca's room soon after
17:03because she said she had nightmares living alone.
17:07She said she only felt safe close to him.
17:10She made soup,
17:12changed bandages,
17:13stayed up until dawn when he drank.
17:15She would press a wet cloth to his forehead
17:17over and over when he ran a fever.
17:20She would show every passing maid man a smile,
17:22restrained and brave.
17:24Hence,
17:24a new saying spread through the family.
17:26They said Mia was a good girl.
17:28They said nightshade was too cruel,
17:30unworthy of the boss's tenderness.
17:32Only one person never echoed any of it.
17:34That was Luca.
17:36He didn't turn the page
17:37just because he married Mia,
17:39the way everyone assumed.
17:40He started drinking.
17:42Villa Morelli's liquor cabinet
17:43emptied by half in a week.
17:45The living room reeked of whiskey and tobacco
17:47all year round.
17:48He took every cleanup contract
17:50no one else dared touch,
17:51like he was sending himself
17:52into the muzzle on purpose.
17:54On the Balkan job,
17:55he cleared an entire warehouse alone.
17:57He came back with two new bullet holes
17:59in his left shoulder.
18:00He didn't even wipe the blood
18:01before taking the next job.
18:03It was on the docks of Chicago's south side.
18:06It was meant to be the simplest recycling job,
18:08but he blanked out right before pulling the trigger.
18:11The dying target lashed back
18:13and a blade sank into his stomach.
18:15Blood ran down his black suit,
18:17but he felt nothing
18:18and pushed the man's head under the river.
18:21Back on shore,
18:22he leaned on the railer and laughed.
18:24There was no life in that laugh.
18:26That was the first time
18:27Red Lily pulled Luca off the active roster.
18:32Don Salvatore ordered him to rest
18:34with no end date.
18:35He sat in the empty room,
18:37polishing the real knife,
18:38carved with LM and VR,
18:40once and again.
18:42The blade shone bright enough
18:43to reflect his sunken eyes.
18:46He didn't know I had seen the copy
18:48before I left.
18:49He didn't know the knife
18:50was never what cut me.
18:52It was that he assumed
18:53I would always stand in place,
18:55waiting for him.
18:57When he was drunk to the point
18:58of losing his mind,
18:59he repeated only one name.
19:01Valentina, come back.
19:04Valentina, I was wrong.
19:06But in the empty room,
19:08no one answered him.
19:09Mia couldn't wait to sit still.
19:11She had waited three months,
19:13but Luca never touched her once.
19:17She finally understood.
19:19As long as I was alive,
19:21Luca would never be hers.
19:23So she spread word
19:25that someone had seen
19:26Nightshope's body
19:27at the eastern border.
19:29Three days later,
19:31a wallet, warped by fire,
19:33was delivered to Villa Moretti.
19:34Inside were my old cards,
19:37and a photo burnt to half.
19:38That was a clue
19:39I had left on purpose.
19:42I needed everyone to believe
19:43Nightshope had died in the east,
19:45but I never expected Mia
19:47to be the first
19:48to use the false death news.
19:49When Luca got the wallet,
19:51he looked like a man
19:52with his bones pulled out.
19:53He shut himself in his room
19:55for a full week.
19:56No food.
19:57No drink.
19:59He saw no one.
20:01The aide stood outside
20:02for seven days,
20:04hearing only glass shatter
20:05now and then.
20:07Mia decided the time had come.
20:11That deep night,
20:12she carried in a bowl
20:13of hangover soup.
20:14In it was enough drug
20:15to black out a grown man
20:16for an entire night.
20:18Luca, have a little.
20:19It'll help.
20:20He lifted the bowl to his lips.
20:21He leaned on the headboard,
20:23eyes hollow,
20:24without even the strength
20:25to push it away.
20:26He drank it down,
20:28from her hand,
20:29with no defense.
20:30The drug rose fast.
20:32His mind blurred,
20:34bit by bit.
20:35The last thing he saw
20:36was Mia's face,
20:38leaning close,
20:39and the flash of triumph
20:40in her eyes.
20:41The next dawn,
20:43Luca woke to a splitting headache.
20:45Mia lay beside him,
20:46wrapped in the blanket,
20:47one shoulder bare,
20:48the sheets a mess.
20:49She had silenced the terminal
20:51on the table,
20:52but the screen still blicked
20:54a red life sign alert.
20:55The aide's urgent voice
20:56came through the door.
20:58Boss, are you in there?
21:00Your life signal went dark
21:01for three hours last night.
21:03The electronic lock
21:04was opened by emergency override.
21:06A few made men burst in,
21:08then froze in place.
21:10Don Saboteur stood at the door, too.
21:12The old man's eyes swept the messy bed
21:14and landed on Luca's pale face.
21:16The whole room went terribly quiet.
21:17Red Lily does not interfere
21:19in private affairs.
21:21The Dodd's voice was low,
21:23but everyone bowed their heads.
21:25But you touched a woman
21:26under your protection,
21:27so you'll give her a title.
21:30Luca opened his mouth.
21:31He wanted to explain,
21:33but he remembered nothing.
21:35He knew he had been set up.
21:37But in Red Lily,
21:38the scandal itself was evidence.
21:42Omada doesn't care about truth.
21:44It cares about the family's reputation.
21:48He had no proof he'd been drugged.
21:51He couldn't even explain
21:52what had happened the night before.
21:54The wedding was rushed and absurd.
21:57Villa Moretti's small chapel
21:58was dressed in new white roses,
22:00almost identical to the ones prepared for me.
22:03Luca stood before the priest in a black suit,
22:05like a man marched to the gallows.
22:07Luca Moretti,
22:08will you protect Bella Lurie
22:09until the end of your life?
22:11The priest asked.
22:12Luca looked at Mia,
22:13but his mind was full of my shadow.
22:16My back.
22:17The night I took the fall for him.
22:19The way I laughed at his shaking hands.
22:22Cold laugh I gave him
22:23when I opened my eyes underwater.
22:25His stomach turned.
22:26Under the wide skirt,
22:27Mia secretly pinched his hand.
22:29Everyone is watching.
22:31You don't want to disappoint the Don, right?
22:33She lowered her voice.
22:34Luca closed his eyes.
22:36I do.
22:37He said those words like swallowing broken glass.
22:40After the banquet,
22:41he walked back to the new bedroom alone.
22:43Rounding the corner of the hall,
22:45he heard laughter inside.
22:47It was Mia and Lana.
22:48This time,
22:49I owe it all to you.
22:51Mia's voice was sweet to the point of clogging.
22:53If you hadn't helped me edit the cameras
22:55and shift the timeline,
22:57how would Luca never believe
22:58Valentina broke in at midnight to scare me?
23:00Lana laughed softly.
23:02Nightshade has skill, sure.
23:04But she's too proud.
23:06So she pulled me out of a pile of corpses.
23:08So what?
23:10Every time she looked at me,
23:12it was like she was pitying a trash.
23:14Mia scoffed.
23:15However good she is,
23:16she's just a dead woman now.
23:18A dead woman,
23:19her own man,
23:19sent to the operating plate.
23:21Outside the door,
23:22Luca's hand slid slowly off the wall.
23:25Fake.
23:25All of it fake.
23:26Mia's PTSD was fake.
23:28The night raid was fake.
23:29My death was fake too.
23:31But one thing was real.
23:32It was he who signed that discipline order.
23:34It was he who had pushed me,
23:36step by step,
23:37into the Phoenix Protocol.
23:38In that moment,
23:39Luca finally understood.
23:40He hadn't lost a fiance who threw a tantrum.
23:43He had killed,
23:44with his own hands,
23:45the only person in this world who ever truly loved him.
23:48Luca pushed the door open.
23:49The laughter in the room cut off at once.
23:51Mia's face turned white in an instant.
23:53The jewelry box in Lana's hands hit the floor with a clack.
23:56Gems scattered everywhere.
23:57Luca walked towards Mia,
23:59step by step.
24:00His pace was slow,
24:01but each step landed like it was crushing the heartbeats of two women.
24:05Say it again.
24:06Mia backed away.
24:08Her lower back hit the vanity.
24:10Luca,
24:11you misheard.
24:12We were just talking about the wedding.
24:14He gripped her throat,
24:15and pinned her to the wall.
24:18The PTSD was fake.
24:21Mia's toes nearly left the floor.
24:23She clawed at his wrist,
24:25her voice breaking.
24:26It's just because I loved you too much.
24:28I've loved you since I was 15.
24:30Why does Valentin get everything,
24:31and I get nothing?
24:33Valentina's death news.
24:34You did that too?
24:35Do you?
24:37She's done with you!
24:39Mia burst into tears.
24:41I'm the one who stayed.
24:43I'm the one who changes your bandages every day.
24:47I'm the one who's really good to you.
24:50Luca's hand tightened further.
24:52And the cameras?
24:53He turned to look at Lana,
24:54cowering in the corner.
24:55Lana's knees gave out.
24:57She dropped straight to the floor.
24:59I edited them,
25:00but I only helped Mia once.
25:02Luca,
25:02I really didn't mean to get her killed.
25:04I thought she'd only be locked up for a few days.
25:06Luca let go of Mia.
25:08She collapsed on the ground,
25:09coughing hard.
25:10He wiped his hand with a handkerchief,
25:12like he'd touched something filthy.
25:14Then he threw the handkerchief onto Mia's face.
25:16He keyed his terminal.
25:17His voice held no rise or fall.
25:19Discipline crew.
25:20Come to the bedroom.
25:21Hearing those words,
25:22Mia crawled to him like she'd gone mad.
25:24She wrapped around Luca's leg.
25:26Kill me if you want.
25:27Just don't cut me out of your life.
25:28For the three years I stayed with you,
25:30I'm begging you.
25:31Luca looked down at her,
25:32only cold disgust in his eyes.
25:34Killing you would be too easy.
25:35Several men in black arrived quickly.
25:37They hauled Mia up and dragged her toward the door.
25:40Mia went from begging to cursing.
25:41Her voice was as sharp as a knife scraping glass.
25:44Luca Moretti,
25:45you'll regret this.
25:46Valentina is never coming back.
25:47She's dead.
25:48You send her to die with your own hands.
25:50You'll never see her again in this life.
25:52Luca stood in place.
25:54He didn't turn around.
25:57He gave the aid his orders.
25:59Mia Bellini framed a maid family member.
26:02Faked a death.
26:03Broke Omarda.
26:04Take her to the Palerno Black Sight Sisball.
26:06For how long?
26:08Luca's voice held no warmth.
26:10Until she forgets she ever saw the light.
26:12The Palermo Black Sight Sensor.
26:14That was Red Lily's oldest place of punishment.
26:17An underground water vault left from the family's smuggling weirs.
26:20The stone walls wept year round.
26:23A chain nailed into the wall on one end.
26:25And locked to the prisoner's neck on the other.
26:27There was no light.
26:28No day or night.
26:30There was only the sound of water dripping into water.
26:32One drop, then another.
26:33The first night Mia was taken down,
26:35her crying carried through the vents for a long time.
26:37She screamed Luca's name, over and over,
26:40and cursed me, over and over.
26:42The aid asked if they should gag her.
26:45No need.
26:47Luca stood beside the well,
26:49watching the cold lamp reflected on the water.
26:53Let her hear how ugly she sounds.
26:56He turned to leave.
26:57Halfway out, he stopped.
26:59He pulled a brand new wedding ring from his pocket.
27:02The one he'd been forced to slide onto Mia's finger.
27:05He casually tossed it into the black water below.
27:09The ring sank, without even an echo.
27:12That girl who had once played so pitifully,
27:15that girl who used one bowl of soup,
27:17one act, one fake death to ruin ten years of my life,
27:20was finally locked in a lightless citizen.
27:22They say three months later, when the guards brought food,
27:25she no longer screamed Luca's name.
27:29She just hugged her knees,
27:32and laughed at the water stains on the wall,
27:35over and over.
27:37But none of this had anything to do with me anymore.
27:41I didn't even know such a girl had ever existed.
27:44Lana was taken to the commission hearing.
27:46To light of her own crime,
27:48she handed over all the evidence.
27:49The camera edit logs,
27:51the ledger for the faked body,
27:53Mia's dark web orders for the drugs.
27:55Item by item, it all matched.
27:56Luca took the evidence to Don Salvatore.
27:59For the first time, he knelt in that study.
28:01His back bent like it had been broken.
28:04Tell me where Valentia went.
28:05The old Don looked down at him.
28:07She took what she was owed before she left.
28:09As for where she went, I have no right to ask.
28:11No.
28:12Luca raised his head, eyes red.
28:14I'm begging you, tell me.
28:16The old Don was silent for a long time.
28:18He slowly ground out his cigar in the tray.
28:20I only know one thing.
28:22What she begged for was not to escape red lily.
28:24What she begged for was to forget you.
28:26That line cut deeper than any bullet.
28:28Luca knelt there, unable to say another word.
28:31From that day on, Luca was a blade with no sheath.
28:33He began the reckoning.
28:34Everyone who had ever mocked me.
28:35Everyone who handed Mia a knife who spoke ill of me.
28:37One by one, they were dragged to the commission.
28:39Were sent to the most dangerous border front.
28:41None came back.
28:43The ones who jeered for me to apologize
28:45were stripped of every contract cut.
28:48Lana Ricci was stripped of her maid woman status
28:50and sent to a border counting house.
28:52Never to set foot in Villa Moretti again.
28:53The torturer who used the neural device on me in that room
28:56was dragged into the very same metal chair by Luca.
29:03Luca strapped him with the same restraints
29:05and taped on the same sensors.
29:09They said when that man came out,
29:11he couldn't speak one full sentence.
29:14Someone advised Luca to stop.
29:16The whole family had been purged into fear.
29:20But he only said one word.
29:24What she went through,
29:26every one of them should feel once.
29:29In the end, his reckoning even traced
29:31the black market clinic's transfer records.
29:33But the trail ended at an anonymous lock
29:35he could never open.
29:36He sat in the study for an entire night.
29:39The next day, he ordered every mirror
29:41in the family removed.
29:42The 80s didn't understand.
29:44Only he knew he couldn't stand the face in the glass.
29:46It was the face of a man
29:48who sent the one he loved into hell
29:49with his own hands.
29:50But late punishment meant nothing.
29:52He washed all of red lily in blood.
29:54He killed everyone who ever wronged me.
29:55But he still could not find the me
29:57he lost with his own hand.
29:58A blood deed can be collected one by one.
30:02But the person you lost,
30:04not one can be traded back.
30:06And I, at that time,
30:08was in Palermo at dawn,
30:11watering a pot of red spider lissies.
30:14Knowing nothing of all this
30:17and feeling nothing of it either.
30:20Three years later,
30:22my life in Palermo was quiet,
30:24like an old book.
30:26My name now was Valentina Bellani.
30:30Every morning at seven,
30:31the smell of bread from the bakery downstairs
30:33reached my room before my alarm.
30:38I would brew a weak cup of coffee
30:41and sit by the window,
30:43writing the day's stock list.
30:46Then I would go downstairs
30:47and open the old wooden door of the shop
30:51and carry the pot of red spider lilies
30:54out into the sun.
30:57On quiet afternoons,
30:59I would recommend poetry to whoever wandered in.
31:02In the evening,
31:04Marco would come on his electric scooter
31:06to pick me up.
31:07He would take me to the little restaurant
31:09on the corner.
31:11I lived on the second floor of the shop.
31:13The room was small,
31:14but from the window,
31:16I could see a sliver of the sea.
31:18No encrypted channels.
31:20No mission countdowns.
31:23No one in my ear,
31:24ordering me to clean a target.
31:26A life this ordinary feels almost like luxury.
31:30Marco always says I'm like someone
31:32who just learned to be a person.
31:34I say that's not so bad.
31:37Being a person is better than being a blade.
31:40I don't know,
31:41I once held a gun.
31:43I don't know why my body tense a beat early
31:45at the sound of clashing metal.
31:50Once,
31:51the kitchen behind the restaurant
31:52dropped a whole stack of knives.
31:56I pulled Mari behind me,
31:58almost on instinct.
32:00Even I froze.
32:02Marco looked at me for a long time.
32:04You must have been hurt really badly,
32:06somewhere in your past.
32:08I believed him.
32:12After all,
32:12I did have one faint old scar
32:14on the back of my neck.
32:15I didn't know where it came from,
32:17but it didn't hurt.
32:19That was enough.
32:22These three years,
32:23I had run the shop well.
32:24I remembered every regular's taste.
32:27The baker downstairs saved me
32:29the first corzone out of the Ivan every day.
32:32The old woman at the corner flower stalk
32:34gave me her leftover daisies.
32:37Marco taught me to ride that old scooter.
32:40My first time out,
32:42I knocked over three trash casses.
32:44He laughed at me for a whole week.
32:48At night,
32:49I would sit by the second floor window
32:50and watch that sliver of sea.
32:52No bodies on the water.
32:54No deals.
32:55No targets to clean.
32:57Only moonlight.
32:58And the lamps of distant fishing boats.
33:01I started to believe
33:02a person really could start over.
33:04No need for a codename.
33:05No need for a gun.
33:06All you need is a creaking wooden door
33:09and a sun that rises on time every day.
33:12Until that dusk,
33:13Belondi Books had no customers.
33:16I was pushing a row of old books
33:18back onto the shelf.
33:20The bell over the door suddenly rang.
33:26Three men in black suits
33:27stepped out of the dusk.
33:29Their shoes were polished.
33:31Their eyes were cold.
33:33They carried an air
33:35that didn't belong
33:36on this quiet old street.
33:37The lead man
33:38peeled off his leather gloves.
33:42Nightshade.
33:43Why did you never answer
33:45the Don's recall?
33:48I stopped what I was doing.
33:52I'm sorry.
33:53You have the wrong person.
33:55My name is Valentina Belendi.
33:57He took a step forward.
34:01Luca Morendi drowned the whole commission
34:04in blood for you.
34:06And you don't even give one explanation?
34:08The shop went so quiet
34:10I could hear a motorbike
34:11past the corner.
34:12I looked at him
34:13and my chest ached
34:15for no reason.
34:16The ache was faint
34:18like something deep in my body
34:20had bumped a door.
34:21Lightly.
34:21I tried to keep my voice polite.
34:24I had a memory override once.
34:26Who is this Luca Morecci
34:28you're talking about?
34:29All three men froze at once.
34:31I followed their eyes
34:32to the other side of the street.
34:33A man stood deep in the dusk.
34:35Black coat.
34:36Tall and lean.
34:38Like a shadow
34:39stepping out of an old nightmare.
34:41I didn't know him
34:42but the way he looked at me
34:43was like I had once
34:44killed him with my own hands.
34:46The man slowly walked
34:47into the shop.
34:48The bell rang again.
34:49I looked up at him
34:50and thought he was strange.
34:51He wore an expensive coat.
34:53He looked like a man
34:54who could decide
34:55many people's and death.
34:56Yet in front of me
34:57his face went white.
34:59You don't know me?
35:00His voice was badly horsed.
35:01He hadn't spoken days.
35:03If we knew each other
35:04before I'm sorry about it.
35:05My memory stops at 18.
35:07The doctor said
35:08everything after that
35:09was cleared.
35:10Not a single thing.
35:12There was a tremble
35:13in his voice
35:13I couldn't read.
35:14You really don't
35:15remember me at all?
35:18No.
35:20I don't remember.
35:21I shook my head.
35:23I saw his hands
35:24shaking violently.
35:25And suddenly
35:26I couldn't bear it.
35:28You don't look well?
35:29Would you like
35:29to sit down for a moment?
35:31It was as if
35:32those words
35:32had struck him hard.
35:34His whole body swayed.
35:35I took a book
35:36from under the counter
35:37and handed it to him.
35:38It was an old
35:39poetry collection
35:40about making peace
35:41with the past.
35:42You carry a lot
35:43of violence with you.
35:44Maybe this book
35:45will help quiet you
35:46a little.
35:46He took the book.
35:47His fingertips
35:49trembled
35:49so much
35:50he could barely
35:50hold it.
35:52The next second
35:53a tear fell
35:54onto the cover
35:55of the book.
35:56I froze.
35:57I didn't know
35:58why this stranger
35:59was crying
36:00and I never knew
36:01that long,
36:02long ago
36:02I had seen him
36:03take a bullet,
36:04seen him kill,
36:05seen him grin
36:05in a pool of blood.
36:08But I'd never once
36:09seen him cry like this.
36:10The bell over the door
36:12rang a third time.
36:13Marco pushed
36:13the door open.
36:14He carried our
36:15packed dinner
36:15in his hand.
36:16Val,
36:16the restaurant
36:17said the seafood
36:18soup was almost
36:18sold out,
36:19but I got the
36:19last two servings.
36:20I smiled at once.
36:21That smile had
36:22grown on my face
36:23over these three years.
36:24Light,
36:24unburdened.
36:25Then let's close early.
36:26I turned to the
36:27crying man
36:28and apologized softly.
36:30Sir,
36:30we're closing now.
36:31He stood by the door,
36:33watching me turn
36:34off the lights,
36:36watching me lock
36:37the door,
36:37watching me naturally
36:38climb onto the back
36:39of Marco's scooter.
36:42My arms wrapped
36:43around another man's
36:44waist.
36:45Before Marco
36:46started the scooter,
36:47he looked back
36:48and asked me,
36:49Who was that man?
36:52I looked back
36:53for a glance.
36:55Under the street lamp,
36:57the man in black
36:58stood very straight.
36:59Yet it looked like
37:00the whole night
37:01had bent his back.
37:02I don't know,
37:04probably someone
37:05who got the wrong person.
37:06The scooter rolled
37:07through the narrow
37:08old street.
37:09I couldn't help
37:10but look back
37:10one last time.
37:12The man was still
37:13standing there,
37:14holding the book
37:15I had given him.
37:16The rain hadn't fallen yet,
37:17but his shoulders
37:19looked already
37:19soaked through.
37:21My chest felt tight
37:22for a moment.
37:23The feeling was unfamiliar,
37:26like a door
37:26deep inside me
37:27had been blown open
37:28a crack,
37:29then quickly shut again.
37:31I lowered my head
37:32and pressed my chest.
37:34Are you feeling unwell?
37:36No.
37:37I looked up
37:38at the glowing
37:39restaurant sign ahead.
37:40That warm yellow sign
37:42was the color
37:42of my life now.
37:44It's just that
37:44some people seem
37:45to live very hard lives.
37:46Marco smiled.
37:48Then stay away
37:49from people
37:49who live hard lives.
37:51I smiled too.
37:52Okay.
37:53What I didn't know
37:54was that after that night,
37:55Luca went to
37:56the Phoenix Clinic.
37:57That black market clinic
37:59was hidden under
38:00an old pharmacy
38:00by the port.
38:02No sign at the door.
38:03Only one green lamp,
38:05about to burn out.
38:06On.
38:07Off.
38:08The doctor saw
38:09the red lily crest
38:10under at Luca's coat.
38:12His face went white
38:13at once.
38:15Mr. Moretti,
38:16the Phoenix Protocol
38:17contract is protected
38:19by anonymity.
38:20I cannot disclose
38:22client information.
38:23Luca set a gun
38:24on the table.
38:26The muzzle pointed
38:27at himself.
38:30I'm not asking
38:32where she is.
38:33The doctor's
38:34Adams-Joeman moved.
38:35Then,
38:36what do you want
38:37to ask?
38:39Whether it can
38:40be restored?
38:41The doctor was
38:42silenced
38:43for a long time.
38:44Finally,
38:45he pulled up
38:45an encrypted file.
38:47Mr. Moratti,
38:48you have to understand.
38:49The final overroute
38:51is not hypnosis,
38:52nor is it
38:53ordinary trauma sealing.
38:54What she asked
38:55to delete
38:55was the entire
38:56identity chain
38:56of her adult years,
38:57the emotional chain,
38:58and every trigger
38:59for danger responses.
39:00We kept her
39:01basic language,
39:02life skills,
39:03and bodily instincts.
39:04But everything
39:04related to
39:05red lily
39:05has been severed.
39:07Luca's knuckles
39:07tightened bit by bit.
39:09I asked if it
39:09can be restored.
39:11The doctor lowered
39:11his head.
39:12In theory,
39:13those fragments
39:13could be forcibly
39:14stimulated,
39:15but she would
39:16suffer a mental
39:16breakdown.
39:17More importantly,
39:18the doctor paused.
39:20Before the procedure,
39:21she signed
39:22a refusal
39:22of restoration clause.
39:24The doctor took
39:24a recording device
39:25from the drawer
39:26and pushed it
39:26across to Luca.
39:27This is the message
39:28she left.
39:29She said if you
39:29ever came looking,
39:30I should play it for you.
39:31He pressed play.
39:32In the recording,
39:34it was my voice.
39:35At that time,
39:36I had just come off
39:37the neural torture,
39:38so weak I could
39:39barely speak one
39:40full sentence.
39:41But the clarity
39:42in that voice
39:42was sharper than ever.
39:44If Luca Moretti
39:45finds this place,
39:47please don't let him
39:48see me.
39:49There was a long
39:50pause in the recording.
39:51I don't hate him.
39:52Hate would still
39:53mean remembering him.
39:55But I don't want
39:56to remember anymore.
39:57Another patch of static.
40:00Night's shea
40:01was Red Livy's blade.
40:04She loved Luca.
40:09And she was broken
40:10by Luca
40:11with his own hands.
40:15When the procedure ends,
40:17the person who survives
40:19owes him nothing,
40:20owes the family nothing,
40:22owes no vow,
40:23anything.
40:23Please,
40:24let her be free.
40:26The recording ended.
40:28Luca listened
40:28and said nothing
40:29for a long time.
40:31The whole clinic
40:31was quiet
40:32except for the hum
40:33of that green lamp.
40:34The doctor took out
40:35one more thing,
40:36a paper document.
40:39It was an ordinary
40:40pre-op consent form,
40:41a small patch of
40:42dark brown blood
40:44on the corner.
40:45From the day I signed it,
40:46when the back of my hand
40:47trembled from nerve pain,
40:49below the signature,
40:50I had written
40:50one extra line.
40:52The handwriting was
40:52slightly distorted
40:53from trembling.
40:54Nightshade died
40:55in the final overroad,
40:56Please don't not revive her.
40:57Luca stared at that line
40:58for a very,
41:00very long time.
41:01Long enough
41:01that the doctor
41:03thought he would
41:03never speak again.
41:05In the end,
41:06he took from the
41:06inner pocket of his coat
41:07the folding blade
41:08carved with LM and VR.
41:10That was the real one.
41:12Ten years ago,
41:13he had carved
41:14both their names
41:15into it himself.
41:16He said if he ever
41:17betrayed me,
41:18I could use it
41:19to stab through his heart.
41:20He set the knife down
41:21beside the consent form.
41:25Seal it into the file.
41:27The doctor froze.
41:29Mr. Moretti,
41:30this is yours.
41:31No.
41:33His voice was empty,
41:34like it had been
41:36blown through
41:36by sea wind.
41:38It belongs to the one
41:39who's already dead.
41:41With that,
41:42he turned and left,
41:45without looking back.
41:47That knife,
41:48which had witnessed
41:49ten years of life
41:50and death,
41:51was finally sealed,
41:53along with that form
41:54that reads,
41:55please do not revive her,
41:57into a file
41:58no one will ever
41:59open again.
42:01Back at Villa Moretti,
42:02Luca called
42:03a commission meeting.
42:04He pushed through
42:05three new rules.
42:06First,
42:07Nightshep's file
42:08is permanently sealed,
42:09status changed
42:10to deceased.
42:11Second,
42:11Belandi Books
42:12and the three streets
42:13around it,
42:14marked as a permanent
42:14red lion no entry zone.
42:16Third,
42:17no member may approach
42:18Valentina Belani,
42:19not in the name
42:20of protection,
42:21pursuit,
42:22recall,
42:23or revenge.
42:24An older capo
42:24spoke up,
42:25hesitantly.
42:27Boss,
42:28she knows too much
42:29of the family's
42:30old business,
42:30after all.
42:31Even with the memory loss,
42:33she's a risk.
42:36Maybe we should
42:37cut the...
42:38Luca lifted his eyes
42:39and looked at him.
42:40That one look
42:41froze in the whole room.
42:42I am the risk.
42:44He said it,
42:44one word at a time.
42:45Whoever touches her,
42:47I will handle them
42:48personally.
42:50No one dared
42:50say another word.
42:52After the meeting,
42:53the aide handed him
42:54a black envelope.
42:55Boss,
42:56that bridal suite
42:57in Villa Morelli
42:58is still kept as it was.
43:00Inside are your old things
43:01and nightshades
43:04and the dried white roses
43:06prepared for the wedding.
43:08How would you like
43:09them handled?
43:11Luca didn't take
43:12the envelope.
43:13Burn them.
43:13He only said
43:14two words.
43:15The aide hesitated.
43:17All of it?
43:18All of it.
43:19That room burned
43:20the whole night through.
43:21The wedding dress
43:22I never got to wear.
43:24The velvet box
43:25that held the ring.
43:26The old photos
43:27from missions
43:28we ran together.
43:29And the knife
43:30carved with the wrong name.
43:33All of it,
43:34devoured by the fire.
43:36Into the fire,
43:37he also threw
43:37one more thing.
43:39A photo of the two of us,
43:40ten years ago.
43:42In the photo,
43:44I leaned on his shoulder,
43:45both of us smiling softly.
43:48It was the only photo
43:49where neither of us
43:50held a gun.
43:51He watched that face
43:53get licked black
43:54by the fire.
43:55Curl
43:56turned to ash.
43:58Luca stood in the courtyard,
44:00watching the firelight
44:01re-read in the windows
44:02of Villa Moretti
44:03bit by bit.
44:04The aide beside him
44:05wanted to say something,
44:06but in the end
44:07didn't dare.
44:09They say he didn't
44:10shed a single tear
44:11that night,
44:12because the time
44:13when he could really cry,
44:15he had already
44:16used it up
44:16in that tiny bookshop
44:18in Palermo.
44:19That night,
44:20a fine rain
44:21fell over Palermo.
44:23I was in the shop
44:24with Marco,
44:25sorting newly arrived
44:26old books.
44:28I looked up
44:29at the rain
44:29outside the window
44:30and suddenly thought
44:31of the pot of pot
44:32of red spider lallies
44:33at the door.
44:34So I went over
44:35and carried it inside.
44:38Marco laughed at me.
44:40Val,
44:40those flowers
44:41look a little unlucky.
44:42They say they bloom
44:43on the road
44:44to the underworld.
44:45I lightly brushed
44:46the blood-red petals
44:47with my fingertip.
44:49Is that so?
44:51I think they're
44:52more like a reminder.
44:53The roads
44:54you shouldn't go back on.
44:56Don't go back.
44:58In a car
44:58at the corner
44:59of the street,
45:00someone watched me
45:01one last time
45:01through the rain.
45:03I didn't notice,
45:04and that was good.
45:05From that night on,
45:07the name Valentina Rinaldi
45:09was gone
45:10from Red Lime's ledgers.
45:12Only a codename
45:14sealed away forever,
45:16and I never saw the man
45:18called Luca Moretti again.
45:20The days after that
45:21remained ordinary.
45:22I opened the shop
45:23every morning,
45:24carried the red spider
45:26Lillians out
45:26into the sun.
45:27In the afternoon,
45:29recommended stories
45:30that quiet the heart
45:31to strangers.
45:32In the evening,
45:34locked the shop door,
45:35and climbed onto
45:36Marco's scooter.
45:37Sometimes late at night,
45:39I would touch that
45:39faint old scar
45:40on the back of my neck.
45:41I still didn't know
45:42where it came from.
45:43I only knew this.
45:44Every time the bell rings,
45:45I would,
45:46on instinct,
45:47look up toward the door,
45:48and then confirm,
45:49there is no darkness there,
45:51only the light
45:51of ordinary people.
45:53Later,
45:53Marco asked me
45:54why I loved
45:54the red spider
45:55Lillians so much.
45:56I said I didn't know.
45:58Maybe because
45:58they bloom so quietly.
46:00They need no leaves
46:01beside them.
46:02They need no one
46:03to look back at them.
46:03When their season comes,
46:05they wake from the soil
46:07all on their own.
46:08Just like me.
46:09I don't remember
46:10Night Shape.
46:11I don't remember
46:12the man called
46:12Luca Moretti.
46:14I don't know
46:15that someone washed
46:16a whole city
46:16in blood for me.
46:18I don't know
46:18that someone burned
46:19all our past
46:20facing a fire.
46:22None of it
46:23has anything to do
46:24with the me of now.
46:25But I know this.
46:26The me of now
46:27opens the door at dawn,
46:28locks the shop at dusk,
46:30greets every ordinary
46:31tomorrow
46:31to the sound of a bell.
46:33This is not a new life
46:34granted to me by anyone.
46:35Nor is it redemption
46:36bought with the city's blood.
46:37This is freedom.
46:38Freedom I took
46:39from the hands
46:40of my old self.
46:41Freedom I claimed
46:42for myself.
46:42Freedom I took
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