~Laurent
I jumped back and turned to face the two figures that I initially thought were my clones.
They smiled in unison.
It was the same smile I’d worn a dozen times in the mirror. The two figures folded toward each other like reflections that had decided to stop pretending they were separate. Where they met, shadow stitched itself together and the shape resolved into one body.
I didn’t flinch.
“Who are you?” I asked.
The thing c****d its head, the motion disturbingly human. “I am Mimic,” it said. The voice was my voice, but thinner, a copy with the edges sanded off.
A pale panel blinked into my vision without my permission.
[Mission unlocked]
Kill: MIMIC
Reward: Free passage to obtain Heartroot Petal
Failure: Death at the hands of the Mimic
No options. No ceremony. Just the c
