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Old 06-06-2021, 04:53 PM   #30 (permalink)
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Like most people, Nem had plenty of memories associated with the holidays, though they would not use the term 'nostalgic' to describe them, or any others, or the holidays in general. Just markers, really.

Little did Varma - or anyone else - know, Nem had been tinkering with the subject of memory for the past year or so. Potions did occasionally come into it, depending on the idea they were exploring, but nothing to do with what they figured this lesson would be about. Not that that would have stopped them providing an answer, if they felt so inclined.

Speaking of which: Occlumency. Given what they'd been looking into, that was a fairly obvious one for Nem. Shore up your defences and you could protect your memories from being tampered with not only by outside forces, but even your own subconscious trying to rewrite the details. Similarly, someone else might be able to draw the real memories out, using the opposing(or complementary, depending on perspective) technique of Legilimency, and a not inconsiderable amount of skill. But that was less about preservation, and more about recovery, and there were all kinds of studies into reliability and accuracy, given the complexity of the brain, especially with the influence of magic.

Nem didn't say anything. It was the wiser and therefore their preferred course of action - just in general, these days - but mostly, they simply didn't want to. Just sat there, still and silent, unobtrusive.
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