After the Great Fracture, humanity’s emotional archives collapsed. Every person’s past split into glass-like shards scattered across the Mirrored Expanse, a digital-psychic dimension accessible only through a neural implant called the Prism. To feel whole again, you had to hunt down your lost shards. But the Expanse mirrored everyone else’s broken pieces too—and some shards didn’t want to be found.
Kaelen’s final chance lies in a forbidden ritual: merging his remaining identity with the downloaded shards to become the mirror’s new keeper. But if he fails, he won’t just die. He’ll become another lost shard, waiting for someone else to make the same mistake.
The shard unfolded inside his mind: Soryn, years ago, standing before a colossal obsidian mirror. She had not broken her own past. She had shattered someone else’s —and hidden the pieces across a thousand realities. The mirror’s name was the Veritas Speculum , and it had once held the complete truth of a forgotten war that could end the Prism system forever.