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"The Price of Remembering" by HexguardHeart
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
25 Jun 2025
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Summary
2045. New York.
A city built skyward and split clean through the heart.In the shimmering towers above the clouds, the elite trade in memories like fine art: first kisses, final goodbyes, precious moments of bliss, curated and auctioned behind glass and gold. Below, in the forgotten boroughs, the poor survive by selling off their joy one neural download at a time, left hollowed and haunted.
Vi runs an underground memory sanctuary, protecting people’s most intimate recollections from theft and exploitation. She can’t form new long-term memories, a consequence of past trauma, and lives mostly in the present.
Caitlyn is a memory authenticator for elite auctions, trained to verify emotional “purity” before they hit the market. But when she uncovers that her family’s company is illegally harvesting and enhancing memories from the vulnerable, the world she trusted begins to unravel.
Their paths cross when Caitlyn finally sees through the veil that’s been drawn over her life and begins searching for the full truth.
In a world where love can be pirated, trauma sold, and reality rewritten, two women must decide what it truly means to remember and what is worth forgetting.