Mira read on, heart beginning to tap a nervous rhythm.
And somewhere, in a server she could not name, in a language older than code, a mirror that had forgotten it was glass smiled back.
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"You're hallucinating," Mira whispered to herself. "Sleep deprivation. Deadline stress. You haven't eaten since—" Mira read on, heart beginning to tap a nervous rhythm
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