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"At least you dare to open your eyes." Diego said to Alda with an ironic smile on his face. "And being an optimist also requires courage, I guess."

He heard someone walking around. The footsteps sounded differently than any he head heard before in this particular hospital. Diego contemplated opening his eyes again to look at this newcomer but decided against it. The images from the last time he opened his eyes were still too fresh.

Then the music started. "No, no, no." He moaned and covered his ears. It wasn't an unpleasant melody (in fact, it was quite a good one) but the prospect of having it stuck in his head for the rest of life, always playing in the background together with all the other songs he had ever heard, made him cringe. Unless he made a great effort to ignore it or seperate all of them it was a very unpleasant sensation.

"I don't want to remember."