Location Fragment: Rei's Anchor Space – "The Dorm That Wasn't"
The walls no longer flickered.
Rei sat still in the center of his dormitory fragment— a room preserved in memory, not in time. The bed, the books, the broken lamp. All remained fixed now, as if some force had decided this would be his foundation, whether he wanted it or not.
He had stopped trying to fix the simulation.
Instead, he watched.
Not with bitterness, but with awareness. A kind of lucid quiet.
> "Jay is shifting. Alicia's more than a stabilizer now. She's… gravity. And I..."
He touched the fragment of his own Student ID, cracked down the middle, its code leaking soft golden threads.
> "I am still searching for where I belong in a world that keeps rewriting itself."
Not broken.
Not erased.
But repurposed— without permission.
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Location Fragment: Echo's Hall of Inversions
