For the longest time, they didn’t remember anything. There was nothing to remember. The cold separation from any sort of source of life had rendered them dead long ago, their heart ripped out and cast away. Then there was a force, tugging, pulling, manipulating- and no resistance could be given because there was nothing left willing to put up resistance.
For the shortest time, there was nothing to remember, because while they were about to be they were not yet in a state of being, just planning. Comforting whispers of the Aetherius gently lulling them into the Mundus and then painhurtsnohelp- and then they were cradled in someone’s hands, small and shining and damaged on the way- important parts missing before even starting, ‘soul rot will set in soon if we don’t d-’, and then they were on their way again-
Suddenly they were small and squirmy and together and separate at the same time, shoddily placed in the same small space. The space grew, they grew, not in size much, but together, edges blurring before first words were spoken. They remembered then, but their body wouldn’t listen- Sithis’ whispers inside their head- screamingtearingtaking- but they remembered how to block it out, and so they grew.
A week after they spoke their first words in this form, they started to forget. Small things here and there- washing away like the tide, events and names and places and then all at once they were talking outright and it was as though the memories had never been there in the first place. But they were together, and alive, and had grown together in an inseparable way. There were no edges, no boundaries between, just them, together, one being instead of the two torn ones that’d been pushed together. Guided together by the Dread Father’s hand, but out of his control, they grew.