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Echoes of Orion - Part 5: The One That Listens

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Title: Echoes of Orion
Part 5: The One That Listens

Elara hesitated at the threshold of the portal.

Behind her, the Nexus shimmered — vibrating like a tuning fork across dimensions. Before her, the way back to Halcyon Wing pulsed steadily. She could return. She could forget. But the echoes from the mirrors were growing louder. Whispering.

And then one of them spoke.

Not a voice. A feeling. A pressure inside her skull.

We remember you.

The walls convulsed. The reflections warped — no longer perfect replicas, but twisted approximations of her. Smiles too wide. Eyes replaced by swirling darkness. As though something else was using her image to reach out.

The older Elara stood firm, her voice steady.

“It’s breaching. The Echo Entity doesn’t just consume timelines… it mimics us to destabilize reality. It’s learned your signature — your pattern. We have seconds.”

Elara turned to her future self, heart pounding.

“What do we do?”

“We trap it here. In the Nexus.”

The plan was simple in theory, catastrophic in risk. Elara would use her unique resonance — the quantum signature identified from the first signal — to lure the Entity fully into the Nexus. Once inside, the dimensional walls would collapse inward, sealing it in a recursive loop outside of time.

But one of them would have to stay behind to activate the collapse from inside.

Older Elara didn’t hesitate.

“This is my penance. I made the first breach… long ago.”

Elara opened her mouth to protest, but then — a c***k.

The ceiling above tore open. From it, a massive form began descending. Not a creature of flesh, but of fractured light and inverted shadows. Limbs folded wrong. Faces flickered in and out of its core — all versions of her — laughing, screaming, crying.

It had arrived.

The Entity.

And it wore her face.

“Too late,” it whispered in a thousand tones. “We are already you.”

Elara stepped forward, heart pounding.

“No. Not yet.”

She reached for the activation node — and the walls of the Nexus began to collapse.


To be continued…

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