Misha had an oddly vivid memory of visiting the Forbidden Palace, though he'd never been able to place it properly in his memories. His parents had split when he was young, and his father had taken him to live in the UK immediately. He couldn't remember the face of his mother, so wouldn't it follow that anything from before the split was too early for him to remember? If so, then when had he ever visited Beijing?
This had been a small mystery that had occupied him when he'd had nothing to do - this had been before video games had entered the house - yet he'd never found a satisfying answer. He'd asked his father once, but the man had dismissed it. He'd been working on a particularly complicated arbitrage case at the time so Misha had left it at that.
As time had gone on, and video games had occupied his free time, Misha thought less and less about this strange memory until he'd almost completely forgotten about it.
