Echoes That Learn

Location: Forum Tower – Rooftop Garden

Time: 11:42 AM

The wind danced lightly through the garden, but the air was dense with tension.

Kaen watched as the counter-mirror bloom opened completely. Its petals shimmered like fractured glass, each one reflecting a version of him that no longer existed.

One smiled.

One wept.

One bled.

And one wore the Eye's mark on its forehead.

> "They're no longer just memories," Kaen whispered.

"They're models now. Self-learning. Self-correcting."

Nila approached, holding a datapad with shaky fingers.

> "We intercepted something," she said. "Not from the Eye. From… something inside it."

Kaen turned sharply. "Inside?"

She nodded.

> "A fragment. Buried deep. Speaking in incomplete code. Almost like a trapped voice."

Kaen took the datapad.

The message was raw, jittery, fragmented.