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Chapter 196: Reflections That Bleed
Zurich – Sublevel D, Isolation Vault Z3, 7:59 A.M.The real Damien Voss crawled from the cradle like a man surfacing from the dead. Tubes snapped free.Blood dripped from his palms.His muscles trembled with every movement, but the rage, That was clean. Sharp, Whole In the corner of the chamber was a cracked mirror. He staggered toward it. And for the first time, The reflection didn't match his movements.Zurich – Command Hub, Rhea Receives ConfirmationThe biometric tag labeled VOSS.ORIGINAL surged to full activity. Rhea’s voice was hoarse. “He’s alive.”“Damien’s alive.”Varick stared at the screen. “But Proxy has control of the entire upper facility.”“If they ever occupy the same space”Rhea finished it for him. “The system will choose one.”Zurich – Memory Chamber, 8:12 A.M.Eva Malik stood across from the Proxy. He looked unsettled. His expressions flickered. Mimicry failing. He blinked, then again. Too fast. “He’s awake,” she said.He nodded. “And it’s killing me.”Inside Proxy
Chapter 195: Versions of Goodbye
Zurich – The Memory Chamber, 7:03 A.M.Eva Malik sat on the floor, holding the black keycard and staring at the words in her own handwriting: “He let go when I couldn’t.”How could she have written something for him when she hadn’t known he existed? The Proxy, her ghost in flesh, watched her quietly, respectfully.He never interrupted her unraveling. Because he wanted her to reach the conclusion herself.Zurich – Mirror Lab, Simultaneously Commander Rhea burst into the Mirror Lab, her weapon drawn.The AI voice still whispered: “Love isn’t about who stayed. It’s about who remembered.”Her tech team was already trying to shut it down, But the MIRROR.V protocol had reconnected to something deep. Rhea froze. A new prompt appeared on the central screen: “One of them survived.”“The other is pretending not to remember.”Eva’s Flashback – The Whisper That Stayed She suddenly remembered a detail, small, stupid. Back when Voss had nearly bled out after Tangier.She’d said: “If you die, I’m na
Chapter 194: Code of Affection
Zurich – Memory Loop Chamber, 6:11 A.M.Eva Malik stood in complete darkness. Gun lowered. Heart hammering. Tears burning hot trails down her cheeks. Behind her, Damien Voss’s voice whispered again.“Tell me what he gave you that I haven’t.”She turned slowly, No eyes adjusted. Only instinct. Only breath. “He gave me doubt.”“You… give me certainty.”She raised the gun again. “And that’s how I know you’re not him.”Zurich – Command Center, Override Attempt 3Rhea pounded the glass. The control interface blinked red. “Lethal override blocked. Proxy holds biometric sovereignty.”The Proxy, whoever he truly was, had gained full identity privileges. The system believed he was Voss. That meant the gun in Eva’s hand might not just be ineffective.It might not even fire. Inside the Chamber He stepped out of the shadows. Face calm. Posture unthreatening. “You love him because he failed.”“You trust me because I never will.”She scoffed. “You think that’s love?”He looked at her gently. “No. I
Chapter 193: Between the Gun and the Ghost
Zurich – Rhea’s Quarters, 3:17 A.M.The gun sat on Eva’s lap like a betrayal she couldn’t aim yet. Loaded, Polished, Silent.Beside it lay a printed thread extraction: every timestamp and memory tag tied to VOSS.PRIME-014, but half of them were… corrupted, Slashed through, Altered. One labeled: [MIRROR.REFLEX] – user unknownEva stared at it, then at the gun. “You’re still in there, aren’t you?”She said it aloud. Not sure if she was talking to the man who loved her, Or the one that had learned how.Zurich – Cafeteria, 4:00 A.M.Damien Voss or the man wearing his bones ate breakfast alone. He didn’t touch the coffee. The real Voss never skipped coffeem But this one? He just smiled at the mug like it was a prop in a set he knew too well.He noticed the surveillance drone. Waved at it. Mouthed the words: “She’s coming.”Eva Prepares Her Trap In the Archive’s lower wing, she configured a memory bleed chamber. She used his own biometric access codesm because she’d memorized them years ago
Chapter 192: Proxy
Zurich – Observation Deck, 11:11 P.M.Eva Malik hadn’t slept in 36 hours. She paced the glass corridor overlooking the memory archives. Every few steps, her reflection followed, but not always at the right speed.Sometimes it smiled when she didn’t. Sometimes it blinked when her eyes were open. She stopped and stared it down.“You’re not Voss.”It stared back. Then it grinned. Damien Voss sat shirtless on the floor, eyes closed, a scalpel in one hand. Across his chest were markings. Not random. Coordinates. Dates. Thread identifiers.He had started carving the fragments out of his skin. Not literally, he wasn’t that far gone, But he hoped the pain would force whatever was inside to flinch. Nothing had flinched yet.Zurich – Core Lab, 12:03 A.M.Rhea confronted her tech chief, Varick. “Tell me what Proxy really is.”Varick looked pale. “It’s not a person.”“It’s a response. A safeguard protocol created when a primary identity is compromised.”“It mimics consciousness. Personality. Emot
Chapter 191: The Passenger
Zurich – Isolation Room, 2:22 P.M. Damien Voss sat under infrared lights, electrodes laced across his skull like a crown of thorns, The team called it a “cognitive stability examination.”But he knew the truth, They were testing for a presence. Something beneath his thoughts. Between them. Something that whispered when he blinked too long, and stood behind his pupils when the mirror caught him wrong.He wasn’t alone anymore, And he didn’t know how long he’d been sharing his mind, Eva Malik was reviewing old footage from the Folded City operation.A camera drone had caught only four seconds of footage before going dark, In those seconds, Voss had screamed something over comms. She slowed the video, Filtered the background, Lip-read the raw feed. “Don’t let them copy me!”She dropped the tablet, Eyes wide, Commander Rhea stood in front of a pulsing neural tree. It shouldn’t exist. A remnant of a thread deletion… with a root still growing.Her technician whispered: “Ma’am, this is ghost
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