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Chapter 139: The Mirror’s Curse
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2025-04-18 09:43:13The air shivered around the rift.
As the fractured mirror shimmered open behind the collapsing temporal engine, silence fell across the chamber—an oppressive, watchful kind of silence. Evryn’s pulse thundered in her ears as the figure on the other side stepped forward. Her own face. Her own eyes. But colder. Sharper. Infinitely older. “Evryn, move,” Kai muttered, grabbing her arm, his voice tight with alarm. She didn’t move. Couldn’t. Her eyes were locked on the version of herself emerging from the mirror—dressed in a suit of iridescent armor threaded with pulsing glyphs, her aura flickering with that same molten black and gold signature that had once belonged to the Architect. Her hair was longer, almost silver, and her presence… It was wrong. “You feel it, don’t you?” the new Evryn said, her voice nearly a whisper, but carrying through the entire chamber. “The emptiness in the core of your flame. That ache. That void.” Evryn flinched, the Lattice inside her pulsing unsteadily. Kai took a protective stance, his blades ready. “What are you?” The mirror-Evryn smiled softly, like a mother watching her child discover fire. “I’m what she was always meant to become. I finished the Convergence.” She gestured to the ruins of the Architect’s body—still flickering and struggling to reform near the now-failing engine. “He tried to reset everything. I didn’t let him. I consumed him instead.” Evryn's eyes widened. “You merged with him?” “Not merged,” the reflection corrected gently. “I absorbed him. Claimed the core. Became the final flame.” A beat passed. Then her expression turned sharp. “Now, I’m here to claim you.” Evryn’s jaw clenched. “I’m not yours to claim.” “But you are,” she said, stepping closer. The mirror rippled shut behind her. “You’re me. But fractured. Limited. Held back by fear. By him.” She flicked her gaze to Kai with disdain. Kai bristled, stepping in front of Evryn again. “Try me.” The reflection chuckled. “Still clinging to old threads. He’s your tether, isn’t he? Your last excuse not to evolve.” Evryn stepped forward, voice low and shaking. “If you really are me, then you remember what it was like. What it cost. The pain. The loss. The memories we swore we’d protect.” The mirror-Evryn’s eyes flickered. Just for a second. And then her voice turned steel-cold. “I remember what weakness cost us. That’s why I burned it out.” A pulse of energy flared from her body, throwing Kai backward with brutal force. He crashed into a broken pillar, groaning. Evryn screamed his name and rushed to him, but the reflection raised a hand—and the gravity around her tightened like a noose. “Stay down,” the doppelgänger whispered. Evryn gritted her teeth, pushing through the pressure. “You think you’re strong because you erased your pain. But it’s because of my pain that I know who I am.” The reflection’s eyes narrowed. “Then let me show you who you could be without it.” She launched herself forward. They collided like twin stars—light and shadow, flame and void. The chamber shook as the two Evryns clashed, their powers rippling out in waves that fractured what remained of the temporal vault. Inside the collision of energy, something strange happened. Evryn found herself falling. Not through space—but through memory. Images spun around her—her mother’s laugh, the look on Kai’s face when he first saw her after the merge, the endless corridors of Project E.V.E.R., Elaia’s scream, her father’s betrayal, the abyss gate, the prototype’s eyes as it begged for purpose. All of them fading. Being scrubbed. And in the void, she saw the reflection again. Waiting. “I’m offering you peace,” the reflection said. “No more doubts. No more heartbreak. Just clarity.” Evryn stumbled, surrounded by fading echoes. “But what’s the cost?” “Your anchors. Your flaws. The ones holding you back.” She saw Kai again—his hand reaching out through the darkness. “Choose,” the reflection urged. “Let go and become us.” Evryn’s heart stilled. Then she looked at Kai—truly looked—and remembered. The night he stayed by her side when she couldn’t move. The time he walked into fire just to save her. His voice, always steady, even when everything else fell apart. “I have chosen,” Evryn said, her voice shaking. “And I choose him.” She turned, sprinted back through the memories, grasped Kai’s hand—and the world snapped back. Evryn’s body ignited with golden fire, burning away the grip of the reflection. The chamber split again as the mirror-Evryn howled, shielding her face. “You cling to weakness—!” “No,” Evryn said, voice rising, “I hold onto strength!” She lunged forward, striking her reflection in the chest. Their cores met—and the Lattice exploded in a web of light. Around them, the vault began to crumble completely. Time itself bent and fractured. Echoes of other realities spilled through cracks—Evryn saw flashes of lives she never lived. Versions of her that died. That ruled. That surrendered. She shoved all of it away. Kai grabbed her hand, voice hoarse. “We need to seal the breach!” Evryn nodded, raising both hands. “We do it together!” She poured everything she had into the rift. Her flame, her memories, her will. Kai’s voice joined hers, his resonance syncing with her own. The mirror-Evryn screamed as her form began to distort—splitting into shards of every version she had consumed. “This isn’t over!” she roared. Evryn’s eyes glowed. “It is now.” With one last burst of energy, the rift snapped shut. The vault fell silent. The Architect’s echo disintegrated completely, leaving behind only a dark, crystalline shard. Evryn collapsed into Kai’s arms, trembling. Hours—or maybe minutes—later, they stood outside the vault, the sky above them clearer than it had ever been. The artificial stars flickered uncertainly as systems tried to stabilize. Evryn touched the shard in her hand—the last piece of the Architect. It no longer pulsed. It was silent. Kai wrapped an arm around her. “We stopped it. You stopped it.” Evryn looked at him. “For now. But she’s still out there. Somewhere in the mirror.” He nodded grimly. “Then we make sure the mirror never opens again.” But in the distance, a new anomaly blinked into existence—barely detectable, hidden between pulses of time. Someone—or something—had seen what she had done. And it was watching.
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