Chapter Four: The Man Without a Shadow

“No.” Ye answered too quickly. They built a paper memory ledger in a windowless vault. Zhou opened pages for Chen Shouyi, Deputy Director Meng, Professor Fan, and the forgotten surveyor of that day. The surveyor had been first to map every shadow pointing toward the old clock tower. Her worn T-square anchored her name. Under raking light, Lin found tiny characters along each shadow's edge. Su's contained eleven unknown names. His contained only two: LIN MO and LIN XI. “A shadow returns memory to its first owner,” Lin said. “Anything borrowed will be reclaimed.” Then Ye's missing shadow meant none of his memories belonged wholly to him.