C24 The Mirror That Bleeds

He looked in the mirror—yet did not see himself.

This version of Eli is unmarked, unsentimental, has no quaking hands reaching for love in the dark. Shadow. Pride. Cloaked in the divine arrogance Eli buried centuries ago. A living memory of who he was before the world broke him.

Before Amon.

Before Kael.

Before the First Sin awakened.

"You are not real," Eli whispered