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Chapter 6 - ATLANTIS ECHOES – CHAPTER 5: THE SECOND NAME

🪐 Zairos 433 – Phase 2, Day 6"A Voice Not in the Data"

I woke up with the morning system update. The room's walls trembled, but the tone was missing. It felt like my frequency veil was unstable; it neither settled into a steady color nor a steady vibration. Usually, this happens when the system can't read the individual. But I logged in last night. My retroactive records weren't deleted either. So, on the surface, no mismatch.

Yet it was still there.

The name "Jinh" was etched silently into my mind, seeping beneath everything. Today, I went to the surveillance room in the data record unit. Sometimes old cycles' images are analyzed there. Unresolved conscious memories are read from the crystal.

Something unexpected happened.

There was a login record that didn't belong to me. From three days ago… but I was on duty outside the city that day. I accessed the record. A woman appeared on the footage. Short, blurry. Water sounds in the background. She was walking along the shore. I couldn't make out her face, but the vibration file analyzed a word:

"Jinh."

Who spoke in the recording? The woman shown? Or someone behind the recording device? The system marked the source of the file as "undefined." Such cases occur only with very old records… or with external resonance. Someone from outside Atlantis?

🎴 Notes:– When the frequency veil is unstable, the person appears in the system but as undefined.– The name "Jinh" started appearing in old data files not registered in the system.– External resonance refers only to consciousness forms existing outside Atlantis.

🪐 Zairos 433 – Phase 2, Day 7"The Shadow Behind the Ocean"

After starting my duty at the spiral station today, the first resonance alerts arrived early morning. Surface crystals glowed with an unexpected rhythm. While wave motions usually flow within three frequency ranges, this time five synchronized bursts were recorded. The system called it a "parallel echo." But no one explained what it meant.

The Spiral Station was built to analyze Atlantis's lower resonances. Located at the junction of water and land crystals, this structure can also detect external consciousness pulses. Throughout the day, old records were analyzed in the station's lower levels. Most were corrupted; some decoded but remained unintelligible.

One record caught my attention.

A low-frequency image; a silhouette figure walking along a shore. The face was indistinguishable, silent, but the rhythm of the surrounding waves carried an anomaly. The pattern matched the "Jinh" figure I had seen before. The recording was brief but shook me. The area where the figure walked resembled no known coast of Atlantis. No sand. No frequency light reflection. Only natural light and a gray-blue atmosphere.

When surface analysis results came back, I was even more surprised: the terrain pointed to coordinates 1989.9. Such a timestamp doesn't exist in the Atlantis system. It might be a connection to another dimension rather than time.

Before leaving the station, I returned to the surveillance panel and watched the recording once more. This time, a word flickered in the corner of the screen:

"Designer."

🎴 Notes:– The Spiral Station is one of the few places able to record timeless and system-external resonances.– The terrain where the figure walks doesn't match any known regions of Atlantis.– The 1989.9 timestamp contradicts the system's data format—possibly a parallel dimension or different time plane.– "Designer" was automatically generated by the system for the first time.

🪐 Zairos 433 – Phase 2, Day 8"Overlapping Frequencies and Silent Alarms"

My return to the center this morning was met with an unexpected security check. My passage permission triggered a "frequency clash" error on the crystal security panel. Normally, this error appears when the system records a consciousness in more than one location simultaneously. But I was in only one place.

I studied the frequency trace reflecting off the center's cold, transparent crystal walls. The fluctuations were more complex than expected. Within my frequency veil, there was a shimmer of an older pattern; brief overlaps, as if another "me" from a past or parallel cycle was intersecting.

Reviewing my records, I found a second Zairos logged at the same day, same hour, and entry point code. Different, yet the same. The face was indistinct and blurry; its vibration frequency was older, reminiscent of an ancient cycle seldom seen in the crystal archives.

A strange feeling stirred deep inside me, as this "second self" was not only present in the system but overlapped with my mental echoes.

I tried to report this, but the report screen froze abruptly. System-external data appeared locked. The screen went dull, crystals didn't shimmer. It was as if this moment had seeped into the resonance loop and become untouchable.

Returning to my crystal room, a new message appeared on my communication panel. No sender. The content was a single sentence:

"You are not just the first name."

This was exactly the same as the mysterious phrase from yesterday. I now understand this is not a warning. It's a call. Even a sign...

🎴 Notes:– "Frequency clash" error indicates parallel or simultaneous existence within consciousness.– The second Zairos' older frequency veil suggests intertwined time layers between parallel cycles.– Locking of system-external data means the resonance loop is either manipulated or protected.– The message's origin is unknown; it might come from subconscious or extra-dimensional sources.

🪐 Zairos 433 – Phase 2, Day 9"Echoes and Crystal Shadows"

Today, I didn't leave the center. I devoted the day to keeping my frequency veil stable. I practiced mental anchoring techniques, but the frequencies still wavered occasionally—especially reflections appearing on crystal surfaces.

These reflections were not ordinary mirrors; they were projections of another time and place existing within the crystal resonance. While staring at a crystal wall, I saw not myself but someone else. At first glance, the face resembled mine, younger or perhaps more fatigued; but the eyes held a different depth, a consciousness behind the gaze.

Suddenly, a voice echoed inside my mind:

"I'm exchanging your place with you."

I didn't understand the meaning. My body suddenly felt heavy, and my frequency veil briefly dissolved. Then, a new reflection appeared. This time, clear.

It was Jinh.

Black eyes. Simple face. She seemed to emerge from waves. But she wasn't from Atlantis. The background was another city—gray sky, metallic structures. She held a note. A page.

I couldn't read the writing but saw a number: 1989.

At that moment, vibrations surged in my mind. These were not my memories but a past that belonged to me. A birth year not recognized by Atlantis—but whose echo could be heard.

🎴 Notes:– Crystal reflections arise from increased resonance density beyond temporal bounds.– "Place exchange" could mean parallel self-transfer or resonance migration.– Jinh's environment is alien to Atlantis—an Earth-like setting.– 1989 may be her home universe's birth year. Atlantis doesn't recognize it but senses its echo.

🪐 Zairos 433 – Phase 2, Day 10"Silenced and Unforgotten Records"

Today, the system no longer recognized me. No doors opened. My frequency trace seemed erased. Strangest of all: people didn't recognize me either. A colleague met my gaze but passed by blankly—as if I never existed.

I returned home. My main crystal was silent. But there was a small backup data unit. I opened it. An old video file emerged. No system date. The filename:

"THE SECOND NAME."

The footage showed a shore. A lone figure slowly turned toward me. Not me this time. Jinh.

In her hand was a parchment-like object with a phrase written on it:

"Zairos is not this. What was Zairos before this?"

No voice, but the waves carried her silent echo.

The crystal grew quiet. But I now knew:

She never forgot me.

🎴 Notes:– System-external records only appear through resonance gateways.– "THE SECOND NAME" points to an entire identity structure, not just a symbol.– Jinh is not only an outside observer of Atlantis but someone who remembers it from within.

🔮 Next in Zairos 433 – Phase 2 (Preview)"The Memory That Isn't Yours"Zairos will learn that many of the memories he thought were his were written by another consciousness. Jinh's voice will begin echoing not only in Zairos's mind but throughout the system. The first resonance fractures hidden by Atlantis will be revealed. And Zairos will face a choice: silence the echo or merge with it.

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📌 To be continued…

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