Oh man. If there were less books he would have squeezed them close. It hurt, to think about it, the hole in his mind, and in his heart.

"No. I asked the Flower Oracle about it, and she gave me a single memory back. The others I have came from friends who had met her, when she visited our school. When they found out what happened, mostly because one of them mentioned her and I didn't know who she was, they got a telepath I trained under to copy their memories into my mind, altering them just enough to make me feel like they were mine."

It was just like that. He knew all but one of his memories were false and that's frustrating.

"The Oracle said I could recover them, but it would be a journey. Jean-Paul has promised to help me, but I don't even know what the first step would be."