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I remembered. I remembered everything. The way she laughed, a sound like wind chimes, when Sackboy would ragdoll off a cliff. The way she would hum the theme from Ni no Kuni while drawing in her sketchbook. The PS3 itself had died years ago—yellow light of death, a funeral of capacitors and soldering points. Uncle had thrown it away. But the games, the saves, the memories—they were still there. Locked inside a piece of hardware that no longer existed. that wind-chime smile