People remembered him not only as a victim, but as who he had been before that final moment redefined him. Stories resurfaced. Laughter. Everyday kindness. Those memories quietly resisted being swallowed by violence.
In the end, the discovery altered everything—not through shock, but through revelation. It stripped away illusion, exposing how thin the barrier is between normalcy and irreversible harm, how fragile certainty can be, and how every truth reshapes those who lived without it.
Nothing returned to what it was.
But the truth, heavy as it was, finally stopped hiding. And for those left behind, that mattered—even if it hurt more than they ever believed possible.