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And then, from the blackness of the unpowered secondary screen, a shape pressed forward. A boy. Younger than Elias. No—it was Elias. But not him. A version that had been deleted from every family photo, every official record, every memory except the one he’d buried so deep he’d convinced himself it never existed.

“Odd,” he whispered. The mirror’s lips moved three frames too late. START-092.-4K--R

Elias tried to eject the crystal. The slot hissed shut, locked. The room temperature plummeted. Frost spiderwebbed across the monitors. And then, from the blackness of the unpowered

The archival lights failed one by one. In the dark, Elias heard footsteps—not his own—walking up behind him. every official record