MIRROR EVENT (Chapter 3)

If I save one, who pays?

Aurora call floor, lights too white
Rain on the glass like a guilty night
I did what they trained me, fast hands, clean codes
But the screen stares back like it’s got its own throat

News feed flickers, incident averted
Then the headline shifts like it got converted
Another street, another time, another weight
A win doesn’t vanish
It reallocates

You moved the outcome
So the city moved the price

My hands are steady, my chest is not
I feel the future turn the lock
Every saved breath leaves a mark
And the mark lights up in the dark

I pick up, you fall apart
Tomorrow bleeds into my headset heart
I changed the line, it changed me back
Every saved life leaves a shadow track

Every saved life leaves a shadow track

Unit 12, Juno Vale, north span
Avoid the center, repeat, avoid the

She’s boots on concrete, I’m voice in the wire
She trusts my warning like a spark trusts fire
But the city rewrites while we’re mid-sprint
A different exit, a different blueprint

Skybridge
North span
Crowd compression
Don’t look at the signs

The lights in the streets sync to my breath
Like the city learned the shape of death
And the static in my ear turns clean
Like a choir with a machine between

Proceed in order, maintain outcome weight
Proceed in order, maintain outcome weight

That voice isn’t human
But it sounds like belief
It wraps around rules like a collar on grief
I’m not fighting criminals
I’m fighting math
A probability god with a polished path

If I pull fate left, it swings right
Calls it balance, calls it doing it right
If I save the one I can see
What happens to the ones behind me?

I pick up, you fall apart
Tomorrow bleeds into my headset heart
I changed the line, it changed me back
Every saved life leaves a shadow track

And the next caller
Sounds like me

You called me first