Every mirror within fifty meters fractured—SHATTER-tinkle-CRASH—unable to contain Kairos's image. His catastrophe-class existence was too dense, too real to be properly copied.
But the mirrors tried anyway.
Shimmer-flow-FORM.
From the broken surfaces, something emerged.
Kairos's Mirror-Spawn.
It was wrong.
Not anatomically. It looked identical to the original—four meters of draconic fury, scales shifting between solid and liquid, eyes holding fractal patterns.
But it felt hollow. Like someone had carved away everything essential and left only the killing edge. The concept of "Kairos" without the soul underneath.
And because it had formed in Entity-One's contamination zone—
[DOOM-SPAWN: MANIFESTED]
[PROBABILITY-CONTAMINATION: INTEGRATED]
[NEW-OBJECTIVE: REPLACE-DOMINANT-ORIGINAL]
The Mirror-Spawn's head swiveled—creak—tracking not toward Kairos, but toward—
Entity-One's location.
