Chapter 498

• Maria was Tiago’s mother. From an early age, she was shy and humble. She had many siblings and grew up in the city’s suburbs. Without much education, she became a domestic worker. Young and beautiful, but extremely naive, she became involved with the wrong man. The man she married was violent and constantly abused her because of his unhealthy jealousy. He was, in fact, the same man I saw killed by the owner of the previous memories.
• The thought of running away constantly dominated Maria’s thoughts. I saw things I didn’t want to see, experienced horrible feelings, and felt tired. I couldn’t just avoid these memories. It was getting harder and harder to deal with them, so I started to think that maybe I had to relive the memories of all the previous carriers to wake up in the real world.
• As long as I knew none of this was real, I would be fine. As long as I had the strength to break free from what did not belong to me, to sleep and wake up in another body knowing that I was still Eliza, I could keep going.