Gil's earliest memories are less memory and more emotion — a sudden rush of anger, of hatred, and then it's gone and all that remains is awful guilt. If he tries to remember sights, he sees only red and black; if he tries to hear sounds he might have heard, a voice hovers at the edge of his mind, but it's not a voice he wants to hear.

So Gil doesn't think of those feelings and sights and sounds, and he no longer tries to remember his past. His appearance at the Vesalius household and his first meeting with Oz have become his earliest memories, and they're also some of his most treasured. He feels a warmth in his chest when he thinks about it, thinks that he's made a present that's surely better than any past he might have had.

And every day, more and more memories come flooding in, because Oz is taking him bug-hunting, or they're going to teach Ada to swim, or he's supposed to eavesdrop on Madame Kate if he doesn't want to have cats thrown at his face. Even when Gil worries they'll get in trouble, he has more fun with Oz and Ada than he's ever had.

Oz takes him to see a sunset one day. Gil says that he's seen plenty of them, but he ends up being dragged away to the tallest hill near the Vesalius household anyway, and Ada follows them through the woods until Oz picks her up to protect her from the thorns. Together, the trio reaches their destination, just in time for the promised spectacle, and Gil sees why Oz wanted him to be here.

All the colors in the sky are blending together, and there's so many different shades of reds and oranges and purples that Gil can't think of names for them all. They slowly fade along with the sun and the warmth it had brought them, but Ada pulls both boys close, and they have just enough warmth for three. There's talk of sneaking back to the house, but Oz laughs and says it would be more fun to stay out tonight, and Gil falls asleep before he can protest too much.

They're found the next morning by Madame Kate and the other servants, and they're separated and dragged back, where each of them receives a very strict scolding and told that this should never happen again, for everyone's safety. But when Gil sees Oz later, he's laughing again, and he's glad they went to see that sunset (even if he had to endure having two cats put on his lap because he said it was his idea).

But it's been ten years since anything like that has happened, and they're merely memories now, and the warmth in Gil's heart — no, he's called Raven now — has grown dull. Sharon and Break have brought him to an abandoned church, but he sleeps outside, telling them he prefers the outdoors and that it has nothing to do with the pranks Break used to pull on him when he would fall asleep.

Tomorrow, they say, will be the day he's been waiting for. They've kept him hanging onto promises for so long that he can't bring himself to let the news sink in, and he falls asleep expecting nothing to come of it. It's cold, where he lies down, and though he watches the sunset, this time, there is no young master and his sister to share their warmth with him.