Elara's life becomes a palimpsest. She wakes up with muscle memory for skills Leo was meant to learn (juggling, speaking fragments of Portuguese). She has intense, heartbreaking nostalgia for places she's never been. Leo, meanwhile, writes a bestselling novel overnight—a story that is essentially his own lost future, channeled through Elara' leak. He becomes obsessed with her, his gratitude twisting into a belief that she is his muse, the key to his genius. His Glimmer, once red, is now a hungry, possessive gold, latched onto her prismatic one.
