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Divine Spark Rising
Inês studied her. “Their labels are not your
truth.”
Jinji’s laugh was brittle. “Easy for you to say.
You got to choose who you were.”
Henry watched her reflection—dozens of Jinji’s,
not broken, just defiant.
The mirrors shimmered. Words appeared like
mist.
You are not the name they gave you.
Carolina’s mirror pulsed.
You do not owe your survival to your silence.
Inês rose. “The Mirror Protocol doesn’t give you
a message. It removes the one controlling you.”
Henry clenched his jaw, unsettled. The mirror
had shown nothing, yet the silence around it
pressed on him harder than any words.
“Fragment 6 is embedded,” Inês said. She
placed a small obsidian disc in Carolina’s palm.
“Break this only when you are lost. It will remind
you who you were before they programmed you.”
They thanked her. Her final words followed
them into the salt wind:
“The closer you come to the final phrase, the
more Chorus will risk. They fear one thing above
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