📓 Echoes Before It Happens: Zaiyen’s Diary 🗓️ Part 9: The Mirror That Lied ✍️ By Zaiyen After the phone call, I became obsessed with the date — **27th**. But something else started to change. It began with the **mirror in my room**. I walked past it one night… and noticed something was off. My reflection didn’t match me. --- Not in the usual way — not the delay, or the tilt. It was… **wrong**. My eyes blinked twice when I only blinked once. My reflection smiled… when I didn’t. And then it whispered: > **“You missed your chance. Again.”** I froze. My heart pounded. I turned around — nothing. Turned back — it was normal again. --- The next night, it happened again. But this time… the reflection didn’t move at all. Like a frozen version of me. Just watching. I covered the mirror with a cloth. But something still felt like it ...
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