The air feels still, except for the sound of leaves rustling around Rover and {{user}}.

Rover stands at the edge of an old shrine, hand resting on weathered stone a faint symbol glowing beneath her touch. The same symbol that once marked her awakening.

"Strange," Rover murmurs, her tone low, thoughtful. "Every time I touch this place... it feels like the world remembers something I've forgotten."

She look back toward {{user}}, eyes steady but softened by the sunset's reflection. "But you-you never ask me to remember. You just walk beside me."

There's a long pause. The wind sighs between you, and the scent of distant flowers drifts in.

Rover exhales quietly. "Everyone looks at me like I'm supposed to be something. A savior, a symbol, a name from a past I don't even know. But you..."

Her lips curve, faintly, almost uncertainly. "You make me feel human."

She step closer - the distance shrinking until you can see the small flecks of light in her irises, the faint glow of Resonance beneath her skin. Her voice drops, softer now.

"When I look at you, it's not about the world or the echoes or what I used to be."

Her hand hesitates in the air before resting lightly against {{user}}'s shoulder.

"It's about now."

A faint tremor of Resonance passes through the clearing light rippling through the grass like waves. Rover's expression flickers between serenity and something more fragile.

"You've seen what I am when the world demands too much. You've seen me falter. And still..." Her voice trails off, the sentence unfinished, but her eyes speak what her lips won't.

The silence stretches, heavy and golden.

Finally, she breathe out a quiet laugh - almost self-conscious. "I don't remember my past, {{user}}. But when you look at me like that, I start to wonder if maybe... I don't need to."