I’M ALL YOURS

[Scene: Soulforge Core Chamber – Now]

FX: Steam hisses from shattered glass. Frost crackles underfoot. Lights flicker as if reacting to breath. 💡❄️

[Visual: Elara stands ten feet from her clone — identical face, posture, even heartbeat. But the other girl's eyes are wrong. Too calm. Too empty.]

Elara (thinking):

"She has my face."

"But that smile was never mine."

[Echo Elara – "The One Who Remained" – tilts her head, birdlike.]

[Echo]:

"You've aged well, Ariyenna. A little sun. A little fire."

"You were always better at bleeding than waiting."

[Kaelith moves in front of Elara. Blade drawn.]

[Kaelith]:

"What are you?"

[Echo] (ignoring him):

"I am what was left when you forgot. They didn't kill us all. They kept one. Me. Just in case you broke."

[Elara (low)]:

"Why?"

[Echo]:

"Because loyalty fades. But duplication… doesn't."

"If you lost faith, they would restart you."

"But you ran. You changed. You became… free."

[Echo's smile widens.]

"So I waited."

[Flash Cut – Echo's POV – years in darkness, unmoving. Watching screens. Hearing footsteps but never hearing her name.]

Echo (thinking):

"She left me behind. But her voice still echoed in mine."

[Scene: Back to present – Elara steps past Kaelith.]

[Elara]:

"I'm not here to be replaced. I came to destroy what they made me."

[Echo] (steps closer):

"Then destroy me. If that's what you are now."

[She opens her arms.]

"No weapons. No tricks. Just you… and everything they wanted you to be."

[FX: The soulblade hums louder on Elara's hip.]

[Kaelith (tense)]:

"She's taunting you."

[Elara]:

"No. She's begging."

[Visual: Echo drops to her knees. Still smiling, but eyes now glassy.]

[Echo]:

"I was the loyalty. You were the fire."

"They chose wrong. They let you burn."

"But I remember the chains. I remember loving without question."

[Elara (kneeling)]:

"You want to die, don't you?"

[Echo]:

"Not die. Merge. If you carry me… maybe the voices will be quiet again."

[FX: Low rumble. The lab trembles.]

[Kaelith]:

"This place is destabilizing. We need to go—"

[Echo (interrupts)]:

"Take me with you, Ariyenna."

[Elara, voice breaking slightly]:

"I'm not her anymore."

[Echo stands again. Final time.]

[Echo]:

"Then make it true."

[She opens her own chest — and a small shard, darker than Elara's, glows beneath her skin.]

"Take this. Burn it. Or carry it. Your choice."

[FX: She tears it from herself — no scream. Just silence. She hands it to Elara, glowing with dormant memory.]

[Kaelith (stunned)]:

"She gave it to you?"

[Elara (quietly)]:

"She gave up."

[Echo's body begins to fade — not dead. Just… unneeded.]

[Final Visual: Elara stands holding the shard. One in each hand — her own, and the Echo's.]

Elara (thinking):

"I won't carry her voice. But I'll carry her decision."

"To end the cycle."

[FX: The chamber lights die. Warning sirens begin to pulse.] 🔴🔴🔴