This post contains MAJOR SPOILERS from late in the set. Do not read this post unless you've read ALL of the books that have been published. You've been warned.
I have included all of my past comments on this Forgotten Secret. I want all of my thoughts in the same post, and it will be easier for me to find what I need if I separate the Forgotten Secrets into separate posts. I will indicate any additional thoughts by adding comments in brackets.
From Keeper of the Lost Cities #9 The Forgotten Secrets:
Page 210 "What if I told you that neither of us was going to remember the rest of this conversation?" Kenric asked quietly. "Everything from this moment on will be erased. Behnam's eyebrows lifted. "Then what's the point?" "This way I'll be able to remember that I asked. But I won't know whether or not you answered."
This statement doesn't make sense. What is the point of asking if he won't remember the answer? Kenric must be lying to Behnam about why he wants to see the hypothetical match lists.
Page 210 "No, I suppose it doesn't." Kenric buried his face in his hands and took a long breath. "I realize this is a tremendous ask. I'm just… running out of ideas for how to move on—and I have to move on. Surely you can understand that."
Kenric is lying. How would knowing for sure whether Oralie is his number one match help him move past the fact that he can never be matched with her? If she is his number one match, then that would be devastating. If not, then I suppose it could help. However, Kenric claims that he's erasing the memory, so none of this makes any sense. Kenric is instead manipulating Behnam into giving him the information that he seeks.
Page 211 But in the projection, Behnam leaned forward and told Kenric, "Truthfully, I do understand why you need this answer. So I'll plug in the data for you—but I feel the need to remind you that it will always be impossible. She already collected all five of her lists. No more can ever be issued."
Page 212 Kenric's number one match was Oralie. And Oralie's number one match was Kenric.
Page 213 "I don't understand," Oralie whispered, closing her palm around the cache to block the projection. "This isn't a Forgotten Secret. It's… I don't know what it is." "It's something Kenric didn't want to remember," Sophie mumbled. "But I'm pretty sure he didn't want to forget it either." Oralie's laugh was equal parts bitter and broken. "Well, how nice of him to leave it in his cache for anyone to find."
Kenric put the information in his cache because he wanted it to be found.
[I no longer think this. Kenric just couldn't have Behnam remembering this event and wondering about it.]
Page 213 "And by the time he decided to give it to you, he wouldn't have had any idea what was in there, right?" "No, he wouldn't. But Kenric was usually far more cautious when it came to… these kinds of things."
Oralie wonders why Kenric would carelessly put information like this in his cache. That's exactly it; the information was not placed in the cache carelessly. He wanted Oralie and Sophie to have this information. Also, I highly doubt that Kenric was unaware that this information was in his cache. After all, if Kenric is Forkle, then he had an identical twin brother. The memory would likely have been shared with his twin brother before being erased, and then the twin brother would have shared it with him again. The same would be true for all of Kenric's Forgotten Secrets.
[I've since realized that the secrets in Kenric's cache are probably not his memories, but are instead the memories of the other person. In this case, Behnam's memory was washed and placed in the cache. I don't think Kenric washed his own memory. He needed the information for Project Moonlark, which is why he asked.]
Since this memory makes no sense on the surface, it means that Kenric is up to something that he isn't telling Behnam. I believe that Kenric is seeking information for use in Project Moonlark. In order for the moonlark to have the greatest potential, the child would need to be the offspring of a pair of number one matches. Kenric is actually making certain that he and Oralie are number one matches.
Page 214 "Kenric and I… we had a very special connection. Add in the fact that Empaths and Telepaths are frequently matched with each other, and… no, I wasn't surprised to see his name at the top of my list, or mine at the top of his. But… we also wanted different things—and no matchmaker would ever be able to account for that."
Somehow I doubt that Kenric and Oralie wanted different things. I think they wanted all of the same things, but Oralie was unaware.
[I wonder what Oralie thinks the different things are. What does she think Kenric wanted? What does she want?]
Page 214 "Why are Empaths and Telepaths usually matched together?" Dex asked. Oralie cleared her throat again and dabbed the corners of her eyes. "The abilities complement each other. Both are introspective—but in very different ways, which allows each partner to find a deeper understanding of the other."
From Keeper of the Lost Cities #9 More on the Forgotten Secrets:
As I wrote previously, this is a huge clue about Project Moonlark. Kenric needs to make sure that Oralie is his match so that the donors for Project Moonlark are number one matches.
Page 210: "What if I told you that neither of us was going to remember the rest of this conversation?" Kenric asked quietly. "Everything from this moment on will be erased." Behnam's eyebrows lifted. "Then what's the point?" "This way I'll be able to remember that I asked. But I won't know whether or not you answered. That'll be enough for me to finally let this go—while also ensuring that there's no proof of you bending any rules. It'll be almost as if it never happened."
I mentioned previously how this makes no sense and that Kenric must be lying. This is what he says to Prentice in Forgotten Secret #5.
Page 256: "In case you're wondering, I'll be wiping this conversation from my mind the second you leave. That way it'll be as if it never happened."
Page 257: "As I said, I won't even remember that I approached you about this."
Kenric tells Behnam that he'll remember he asked. He tells Prentice that he won't remember. So which is it? This depends upon where Kenric begins the memory washing for each memory, but here's the problem: Kenric knew what he was going to do in both cases; he didn't wash his memory of when he set up the meeting with Prentice or when he walked in to ask Behnam about his match. In both cases, Kenric would know that he asked. He's lying when he tells Prentice that he wouldn't remember.
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