I went to the place Miuco chose
A narrow street behind the old metro station
The light there was dim
And people walked by like shadows
Bodies without faces
I stood there for a few minutes
Breathing hard
My mind still mixing the image of Riko on the chair
And the empty seat
I heard footsteps
I looked up
Miuco was coming
Her face looked tense
Her eyes moving quickly as if checking that no one was watching us
She stopped in front of me and said in a low voice
"Ginso tell me exactly what you saw"
I told her
About the clock
About door number 5
About Riko who was there and not there
About the feeling that my head was disconnecting from reality itself
She did not interrupt me
She let me speak until I finished
Then she took a long breath
And said a sentence that shook me more than anything I had seen
"Ginso this is normal"
I stared at her in shock
"Normal what are you talking about I am losing control"
She raised her hand to silence me
"The human mind cannot see possibilities of the future
It is not designed for that
So when your fear or shock increases
Your mind starts mixing different possibilities with reality"
She took a step closer
"Your ability works with tension
But when your tension passes a certain limit
Your mind begins to merge several different futures with the real world"
She stepped even closer
"What you saw is not a vision and not hallucination
It is a possibility
A shadow of a future that did not happen
Something that could have existed in another scenario"
A chill ran down my spine
"Why is this happening now"
She answered slowly
"Because you are in the most dangerous stage
The stage where a seer's abilities begin to lose control
Because you are scared more than ever
And because the organization placed you under surveillance
Your mind is trying to understand every possibility
Even the ones that do not belong to this world"
I stayed silent for a moment
Then the question I had been holding finally escaped
"How do you know all this
How do you know how visions work
How do you know what my mind is doing better than I do"
Miuco froze
Silence fell between her shoulders
As if she had been waiting for this moment for a long time
She took one step back
Then finally said in a cold but slightly trembling voice
"Because my name is not just Miuco"
She lifted her eyes to mine
"I once had another name
A name that no one should hear anymore"
My heartbeat sped up
She said clearly
"They used to call me Spectra"
The air around me felt suddenly heavy
"Spectra I know that name but what does it mean"
She answered with a look like she was pulling something dark from her past
"I was a member of the organization Ginso
And I was the head of an entire lab
A research lab for seers"
My head started spinning
"You worked with them
You were part of them"
She nodded
"But not the way you think
I did not know their truth at the beginning"
Her expression began to change slowly
As if her memory was being pulled to another time
Flashback___
A long hallway
Strong white lights
A glass room at the end
Young Miuco standing in front of a man in a dark suit
Her scientific and medical file open on the table
The man turned the pages slowly
But his face was not clear
His features hidden in shadow
He spoke in a calm official tone
"Your skills in neuroscience are excellent
Your precise knowledge of neural activity is impressive"
He closed the file
"We have a project that needs someone like you
But it is highly classified"
Miuco hesitated
Then asked
"What kind of project"
The man smiled a short cold smile
"Experiments related to human consciousness"
He pushed a small card toward her
It had only one letter
S
"If you accept your new name will be Spectra"
She took the card with a shaking hand
End of flashback
I returned to the present
My heart pounding
Miuco looked at me
Her eyes carrying the shadow of the memory
"I was young
In love with science
I did not know what the project really was
Or who was behind it"
She went silent then said
"I will tell you the rest when the time comes"
Suddenly her expression changed
As if she heard something behind me or felt something
She said quickly
"Ginso we need to leave
Now"