Anchor 1313.R — The Silverglass Dominion
There were no skies here.
Only mirrors.
Infinite mirrors.
Stacked in domes, layered into mountains, stitched into rivers. Each one reflected a slightly altered reality. Some showed the Kael team entering. Others showed them never leaving.
"Alright," Ghost Ronin muttered. "I already hate this place."
Kael stepped forward carefully, his own reflection following him a beat too late.
That's when he saw it.
The reflection smiled first.
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"Did… you just—" Myra began.
"I saw it too," Kael said, drawing his chrono-dagger.
Then came the whisper — from every mirror at once.
> "He's not broken. You are."
Suddenly, the reflections of the team shattered free from the glass — perfect duplicates, but wrong.
Ghost Ronin's twin laughed when he killed.
Myra's double burned timelines instead of mending them.
Even Aren's version was full-grown — and monstrous.
But the worst was Mirror Kael.
He wore black and chrome. His smile was permanent. His eyes glowed crimson with paradox burns.
He bowed theatrically.
> "Welcome to the only Anchor where I won."
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Mirror Kael had ruled this domain for centuries. Not through fear — but control.
He was charming.
Unapologetic.
And terrifying.
"I stopped running from time," he told Kael. "I seduced it."
"You're not real," Kael said.
Mirror Kael chuckled. "Reality is just narrative with commitment issues."
Then he leaned in.
"I know your ending. Would you like to see it?"
Kael hesitated.
"Don't," Myra warned.
Too late.
Mirror Kael touched his forehead.
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🔮 Flash-Glance: Timeline F-99 Collapse
Kael stands alone on a hill of broken chronogear. Every friend dead. The Time Weavers triumphant. He screams — but no one hears. He isn't remembered.
He never existed.
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Kael tore away, gasping.
Mirror Kael grinned. "Truth hurts, doesn't it?"
Ghost Ronin lunged, but his blade passed through the twin like smoke.
"They're not real," Aren said suddenly. "They're projected selves. Kill the ego, not the body."
Myra narrowed her eyes. "Reflections of our worst selves… They only live if we let them."
She looked at her own double and whispered, "I forgive you."
The mirror version shattered.
One by one, the others began fading too — not with violence, but with acceptance.
Even Kael looked into his darker twin and said:
> "You're not my end. You're my warning."
Mirror Kael snarled — and exploded into shards of silverglass.
The Dominion collapsed.
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Anchor 1313.R – RESOLVED
Internal Paradox: Reconciled
No Variant Absorbed
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Back in the Sanctuary, Kael sat quietly.
Myra approached.
"First your past self tried to erase the world. Then a Kael who never lived wanted you to exist. And now… one who thrived without morals."
Kael looked up.
"We're not fighting versions of me anymore. We're fighting the story I could become."
Aren added softly, "And the closer we get to the central thread… the more real those stories will become."