Chapter 111: Mirror’s Question

Mirror Liss stood in the garden. She watched Prime laugh with her friends. She heard Phantom humming in the hallway. And for the first time, she wondered:

"If I'm her… why do I feel so other?"

She approached Thessaly.

"Do you trust me?"

"I do," Thessaly said.

"You think too much."

"But would you trust me if she were gone?"

Thessaly paused.

"You already are her. And she trusts you. That's enough."

Mirror walked away smiling. But in her chest… something stirred.

A fragment of rebellion. Not from anger. From fear of being unreal.