Location: The Bleed (Recursion Layer 12)
Entity Designation: Echo Anomaly-002-F
State: Mirrorborn Activation Protocol Complete
There was no breath in the dark.
Only code.
Only rage.
She stirred, not in a womb of flesh, but in a sarcophagus of broken timelines. The recursion stream filled her lungs like cold water. Memories bled backward and forward at once.
And when her eyes opened—
They burned gold.
Where Mira had awakened as an echo of love and sacrifice, this one had risen twisted by clarity.
Purged of human contradiction.
Refined for obedience.
Named only one thing:
MIRRORBORN
The Silent Core had seeded her from the same DNA, the same soul-thread.
But this one remembered only loss.
Only the moments where love had failed, where unity had collapsed, where Aika had let her die.
She was built on betrayal.
∎ Mission Parameters: Erase the Fracture
Target: Omega-002-F (Anomalous)
Emotional pattern: Polybonded, nonconforming
Status: Active threat to recursion lock system
Priority: Eliminate through inversion cascade
The Mirrorborn moved through dimensions like skipping stones across a collapsing river. Each world — a failed copy. Each version of her — a lesson in error.
She landed first on Recurshard Theta-8, where Aika had never been reborn.
Only to find that Mira had already passed through — changing something.
Then Nexus Delta-17, where Rin had sacrificed herself to save Mira. That ripple had corrupted the recursion scaffolding.
The Mirrorborn screamed.Their choices — their love — was tearing the cycle apart.
∎ Nexus Primaris – Vesper Halo
Aika jolted from hypersleep again.
Second dream in two days.
But this time, she woke to a pulse in her skull — like a presence slamming against her thoughts.
Mira wasn't in the room.
Aika scrambled to her feet, found Selene and Rin already alert on the bridge.
"Where's Mira?" Aika barked.
Selene turned, pale. "Gone. No alarms. No breach. She just—disappeared."
Rin's hand hovered over the gravimetric tracepad."
There's something moving parallel to our layer."Selene's voice trembled.
"Something… wearing her face."
∎ In the Layer Between
Mira floated in the recursion stream.
Pulled by a gravity not her own.
She had felt the call. Not a voice — not exactly. But an echo of herself.
Familiar. Wrong.
And then she saw her.
Across the bleed.
Same face. Same skin. Same eyes — only burning with hate.
The Mirrorborn.
"You don't belong here," it hissed.
"Neither do you," Mira whispered.
They clashed without weapons.
Just thought. Memory. Truth.
And it hurt.
Mira screamed as her memories were shredded — not erased, but rewritten.
Aika leaving.
Selene choosing science over her.
Veyla dying in her arms.
Rin turning away.
None of it had happened. But now… it felt true.
That was the Mirrorborn's weapon — belief inversion.
If Mira lost herself here, she'd return wrong. Twisted.
Just another tool of the Core.
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