The City of Stolen Memories
Chapter 1 — The City of Stolen Memories
Luméria was a city built on fear — not of bullets or hunger, but of forgetting.
Ever since memories became a currency, people hid their thoughts the way others hid diamonds.
Collectors roamed the streets like wolves, armed with scanners that could drain your past in seconds.
Amani, nineteen, lived quietly repairing old radios.
He liked radios because they remembered nothing.
Machines couldn’t betray you.
But each night, the same dream returned:
A woman with golden eyes whispering, “You carry the last echo… protect it.”
He didn’t know her.
He didn’t know what the echo was.
But he felt it burning inside him.
One night, the Collectors finally found him.
