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Chapter 184: The Mirror’s Breath

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It was like looking at a dream she’d had too many times to remember clearly; her double stepped forward, not an enemy, not a beast, but her. A perfect rendition, down to the scar above the eyebrow, the tilt of her chin when she was calculating too fast for her mouth to catch up. This wasn’t a clone. It was a decision made visible.

Sariah didn’t draw her weapon.

Not yet.

She stared at the copy, at the version of herself born from everything she had buried or denied, and the longer she looked, the less she could breathe.

“You’re not real,” she said, though her voice lacked conviction.

The copy smiled, a small, private curl of the lips. “But I could be.”

That was the problem. She could be. She was. Somewhere inside, beneath the anger, beneath the guilt, beneath the years of sharpening herself against expectation and survival, there was this. A colder Sariah. A Sariah without hesitation. Without fear. Without need.

“What do you want?” Sariah asked, her hand flexing but not reaching for he
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