#finalepilogue

[refecktion-lads]

hey Brian, uhmm I've heard the news and well... how you doing? do you have a reflection now?

B: How am I doing? How do you think I'm doing?! After everything, after all we've been through, he's fucking gone.

B: They're both gone. Daithi and Dan, they're...

B: After Dan went and took the medicine that night... I don't know. Something hit me, I guess. I'd been telling myself all that time that it wasn't real, that we were all gonna be fine in the end.

B: But then Dan went down. And he wasn't getting back up.

B: He'd made another dose of the medicine for me- even though I said I wasn't gonna do it, he'd made one just in case. And I went for it. I was gonna do it...

B: Daithi stopped me. Why the fuck did he stop me? He grabbed the cup out of my hands, he threw it away... Why? He could've come back, like Kevin did. He could've had a life again. But he threw it away.

B: And I just remember standing there, watching him flicker away for the last time. I didn't wanna believe it. How could I?

B: Then I was staring at my own reflection, like Daithi had never been there. And maybe I imagined it, but I think I heard him say goodbye.

[refecktion-lads]

Is it too late now to start reading trough the entirety of this account?

S: I don't see why not! I actually just finished reading through it a few days ago, actually. It took a bit longer than I expected...

S: I wouldn't expect a lot more to be added here, though. Unless Dan and Daithi come back someday, like Kevin says they might.

[refecktion-lads]

Kevin do you have ORe’s memories too? Do you know what he was attempting to do? Also do you actually look like Dan or only in the mirror? (Remember that at first when you were Dan’s reflection all you could do was exactly copy what he was doing)

-♟

K: I look like Dan outside the mirror, too. It's been really hard getting used to it. Sometimes I pass by a mirror and forget...

K: I've got ORe's memories, but they're difficult to process. It's a bit weird, having 2 sets of memories when you should have 1, but. I think I've got it all sorted out now.

K: ORe didn't know what he was doing, I'll be honest with you. For a while, he wasn't aware of anything. But then something happened- when the mirror world started flickering, it was like he woke up. He started to realise that he was trapped back there, and that he wanted to escape. It was the only thing he wanted. So he tried at every chance he got, but someone kept fighting back...

K: Then he figured out how to talk to Dan and asked him for help. He didn't know what he was doing. All he could do was make guesses with the memories he had. He wanted to escape without hurting anyone, and he thought Daithi's medicine would do the trick. But he was wrong.

K: ...I was wrong.

K: . . .

[refecktion-lads]

hello?? what happened?

seems like at least two of you are here but what about the rest?

K: What happened… That's a good question, Anon. I've spent the past few days trying to sort everything out. It feels like everything's… I don't know how to describe it. It feels like someone's put my brain in the blender, if I'm being honest. I remember so much now, it's a lot to process. But I'll try to tell you what happened.

K: That night, when Dan took the medicine... I didn't know what to do. I'd told him it was a bad idea, that he shouldn't do it. But he wouldn't listen. All I could do was watch.

K: And then things got a little weird. I think I remember getting pulled to the back of the mirror, like usual. But then I remember going forward, too? Everything was going dark, and I couldn't see anything, but I felt something break.

K: I think I heard Daithi scream. I've only ever heard that once before.

K: And now I'm here. Brian's still here, too. And Jack...

K: Jack doesn't remember anything. He doesn't even remember being called Jack. I don't know why that is. Maybe he's got his own ORe somewhere.

K: I hope that's it, at least. I hope Dan and Daithi are safe. Maybe they've got their own "mirror world" that they're in. But if that's true, then we wouldn't know about it for a while.

K: I don't know a whole lot about how the mirror world works (I'm still trying to sort that part out) but I'm gonna figure out if there's a way to get them back. There's got to be, right?

K: There's only one way to find out, I think.

[refecktion-lads]

KEVIN???

ARE U OUT?

U LOOK LIKE DAN-

- ^_^

S: He looks like Dan, too? Huh, Kevin hadn't told me that part yet... Weird. Though I guess there's a lot more important stuff to worry about than that.

S: I hope he doesn't mind me answering this. It just... it feels like something I'm supposed to do, for some reason.

[refecktion-lads]

...Hello? Is anyone there?

It's so dark in here, I can't see a thing. Did the power go out?

...Wait...

Dan? Are you there? Dan????

[refecktion-lads]

Well, "Jack" was always just a fake name that he gave you when he first came on the job, right? So he didn't quite forget his own name, just a nickname. How much does he remember of the last few months, though? And also what name does he go by now?

S: The only name I know for myself is Seán now. I woke up a few days ago knowing just my name and...

S: . . .

S. Well, I don't remember much else, actually.

S: But I don't know if it's amnesia amnesia, now that I think about it. Do you know what I mean? Like, I still remember the easy things- my name, what things are called, etc. I just don't remember anything specific from before.

S: Well, there is one thing... I remember this big flash of light, like an explosion! I think it happened right before I woke up. Maybe that's what made me lose my memories?

S: Kevin says he's not 100% sure what happened to me, but he thinks the "Mirror World" has got something to do with it. I guess that's the thing that caused this whole mess in the first place, yeah? God, I wonder what the Mirror World's really like, if it's that powerful...

S: I've been reading through some of this blog, just to get an idea of what Kevin and Brian are talking about, and it's all so fucking wild to me. I don't know how to explain it, but to see "Jack's" words on the screen is just... I don't know. It's hard to believe that I wrote them, that me and Jack are the same person.

S: I wonder if it's always gonna be like that for me.

S: . . .

S: I'm really glad Kevin and Brian are here. I'm not sure what I would've done without them.