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Chapter 168 — The Shape of Unmaking
For a long moment, Jason couldn’t move. The world around him wasn’t fire, it was reflection pretending to burn. Flame that gave no heat, smoke that looped itself like thought.Everywhere he looked, mirrors hung in midair, fragments of himself, of Aria, of the battles they’d survived. Each fragment replayed a moment, flickering on a loop: his hand reaching for hers, her eyes closing, light swallowing them.Now the loops were rewriting. Each cycle changed, tiny shifts. Her expression softening. His hand missing hers by an inch. The wound on her shoulder healing wrong.Every repetition bent the memory further from truth, until even the echoes no longer obeyed what he remembered.Jason tried to move, but invisible weight crushed him to his knees. The glass beneath him flexed like liquid, cold seeping into his bones.And above him, two silhouettes hovered in the churning light: his mirror self, haloed in emberfire,and the fused Aria, half silver, half human, every breath pulsing through t
Chapter 167 — The Voice in the Glass
For a heartbeat, Jason thought the light had gone silent again. Then he realized it was breathing.The air itself was pulsing with rhythm, faint, steady, deliberate. Every flicker of light seemed to exhale with his heartbeat. And every time he drew breath, something in the reflection breathed with him.Then it started whispering. At first it was soft, like echo. A shimmer under his voice. But then the words became clear, identical tone, identical cadence. “You’re too late.”Jason froze.His reflection stared back from the shattered silver sea, no longer mimicking his movements, but standing just slightly off-beat, as though it existed half a second ahead of him.He swallowed hard. “No.”The reflection tilted its head, smiling faintly. “You broke the labyrinth, Jason. You broke her, too. Why shouldn’t you break yourself?”Jason’s pulse slammed through him. He stepped closer to the glass. “You’re not me.”“Then why do I remember everything you do?” the reflection murmured. “Why do I fee
Chapter 166 — The Heart in the Mirror
Silence.For the first time in forever, Jason couldn’t hear the sound of his own heartbeat. Only the soft hum of light.He opened his eyes, or something like eyes, and found himself adrift in a sea of silver glass. The air shimmered like liquid mercury.Above him, the fragments of the labyrinth spun slowly, orbiting a pulsing core of light that looked disturbingly like a heart suspended in glass.His body was wrong. Too light. Too quiet. And his hands… his hands were holding something warm. Two someones. Except, no. Not two. One.A single figure lay tangled in his arms, her form half-shattered, half-whole. One side of her face glowed faintly with human color; the other shimmered with mirrored skin, smooth and cold as moonlight.Her hair was divided too, half gold, half silver, and when she breathed, the sound trembled between a human sigh and the hum of crystal strings.“Aria…” Jason whispered. His voice echoed through the light, like speaking through water.Her eyes fluttered open. A
Chapter 165 — The Merge
Jason woke to the sound of breathing, two rhythms, overlapping, discordant. One shallow. One too deep.His body ached. Blood crusted down his arms. Shards of glass had melted into his skin, pulsing faintly with ember light. He tried to move, but his hands were locked in iron, or no, not iron, flesh. Two bodies.His fingers were tangled in two bodies that weren’t two anymore. He opened his eyes. The world had changed.The labyrinth was gone. No sky, no floor, no reflection. Only a pulsing expanse of translucent matter, endless and alive, breathing in slow waves of dull luminescence.Every inhale drew motes of broken glass toward its center; every exhale scattered them like stars. And in the middle of it, cradled in his shaking arms, they lay.The half-borns, what remained of them, had fused. Their skin shimmered between flesh and mirror, patches of muscle giving way to panes of polished glass that revealed arteries of light beneath.The two faces had merged down the middle: one side so
Chapter 164: The Refusal
The glass plain trembled under Jason’s boots, humming like a thousand voices holding their breath. Before him knelt two half-born Arias. Identical. Both bleeding, both trembling, both reaching for him.Flesh and glass warring across their skin, human eyes cracked with terror, mirrored eyes flickering with unstable light. Both whispered in the same cracked breath: “Save me, Jason.”Jason’s throat closed. His fists trembled. His ember pulsed like a star about to explode, clawing at his chest. This was the choice. This was the trap. And he hated it.Jason staggered a step forward, then froze. His breath came ragged. His whole body screamed at him to lunge, to grab, to choose.But his mind, raw, ragged, torn though it was, still clung to the one defiance that had carried him through every impossible truth so far. “No,” he rasped, voice shaking but steadying.Both half-borns flinched, glass chains rattling from their shoulders.“I won’t choose. Not like this. Not between you. Not ever.” Ja
Chapter163: The Thousand Faces of Her
Jason staggered upright, fire dripping from his wounds in slow, molten arcs. The mirror-ocean had hardened beneath his boots into a glass plain that stretched forever, slick and gleaming, every step echoing back at him with the sound of breaking crystal.Above, below, and around, there was no horizon. Only reflection. Infinite Aria-faces stared at him from every direction, each one alive, each one watching. And in his arms, emptiness. The half-born was gone.Jason’s hands trembled as he looked down, blood dripping onto the mirrored floor. He’d held her. He’d sworn not to let go. But now there was nothing, no warmth, no weight, only his own shaking limbs.“Aria!” His voice thundered through the abyss, echoing into a thousand mouths.Every reflection moved their lips with his cry, repeating her name in different tones, sweet, bitter, angry, pleading.Some said it with hatred, Some said it with devotion, Some didn’t say it at all, only mouthed silence. Jason’s heart lurched. He forced hi
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