Eli wakes with a missing day not a dream, but a clean erasure, mid-sentence, as if someone cut the page from his mind. He remembers entering the Terminal Room with Claire to ask something crucial about what they are and what they're owed. But Claire wakes uncertain what's real. Did they both dream it, or is The Core itself rewriting their memories?

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