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A stroke of luck! A mind mage, here, just as I arrive!
I lift the tent flap and enter, and a strong smell of dung hits me.
A rough voice speaks from my right. "Hey missy, you looking to buy a pet?"
I look to the owner, a rough man. "No, I'm looking for the mind mage."
He laughs. "Wrong tent, I think he's in the one with the fancy blue stripes just behind me. It's got a weird aura about it."
I apologise to the pet man and leave, then walk around his tent until I see the blue-striped one.
I hesitate as I grab the flap, and have to push myself to open it. The pet man was right. I guess that's just how mind mages are.
"You are here to restore your memories."
I catch sight of the man just as he begins to speak.
"Yes. I want to know who I am!"
"Very well. I'll charge one gold coin for it. Can you afford it?"
I reach toward my pouch. I don't know why I have so much money, but it's more than enough to pay him.
"Very well."
The mind mage bids me sit down, so I take the only other chair in his tent.
"Close your eyes."
I do as he asks, and a weight clouds my mind. Almost like a headache, but not painful.
Not long after, the weight clears.
"I cannot undo it. Not without your consent. You willingly had your memories sealed. Perhaps you were married to an abusive man. You should think carefully about this, you likely don't want to remember. And you don't want to waste your money calling after me every time you think you want to remember."
>It's best to know regardless
>I'll trust my past self

This time I actually know what comes next*. This is one of the earliest scenes in a VN I have planned out. I was meant to be working on it with some others but I basically don't talk to any of them anymore, and the data's all locked up in my borked nextcloud instance. Someday I'll extract it and put it somewhere more accessible, like git.
*Actually I only just figured out what the big secret is. And now I want to figure out a way to keep it even if you go ahead with the restoration. Maybe the protagonist just won't give any details.

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