The smell hits before the memory does — and by then, it's too late to refuse it. A scent-archivist working in a classified olfactory archive synthesizes a forbidden compound that doesn't trigger memories so much as overwrite them, blurring the line between what happened and what the body insists happened. Identity, it turns out, is mostly chemistry — and chemistry can be falsified. The government already knows this.
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