I felt strange this morning. Before I started my day I saw brief flashes of... something. I thought I saw a strange shadow appear somewhere in the break room, but I don’t know if I did. This is something that hasn’t happened to me before.

I went back to inspecting the pile of electronics there, and saw a small device. I recall Master told me this had something to do with music, so I put it next to the couch and attached a battery to it. I pressed a button on it and it started playing a faint tune. I thought it would be nice to have this to take my mind off things. Especially because when Master isn’t here this break room is unsettlingly silent sometimes.

Today’s test was strange but enlightening. It started off as usual, with me trying to find Master’s location in other realms. The first realm I saw looked like the sky was inverse colors from what I see here on Terra-0008. In the viewpoint I heard a voice calling out for “the original blue”. I followed the location of the voice and aimed the portal somewhere else.

In the next realm I saw a person inside a room, and there was another voice calling out in this one too. I heard someone say “Goodnight, skeletons,” and I followed the location of the voice here. Once I aimed the portal afterwards, though, I saw something strange.

I saw myself, from two hours ago, when I first entered the break room. I saw myself setting up the device that played music next to the couch. This was the strangest thing I saw up ‘till now. I thought to myself how this was possible, and I almost freaked out, but I thought this might go somewhere. I calibrated the portal to the location of my old self.

A bright light suddenly emanated from the portal’s viewpoint, causing me to suddenly move backwards, stunned. Once my eyes adjusted to the light I saw what looked like a long hallway inside the portal’s frame. But once I moved closer I realized what the sight was – it’s the sight of myself looking at the portal being repeated over and over. At that moment I was transfixed by it, feeling like I was getting stuck in an infinite passageway, with countless copies of me fractions of a second apart. I waved my hand and saw the reflections of me do the same. At first there was a delay between my movements and what I saw from the other versions of me. It first took a second, then half a second, then a quarter of a second. Eventually, I saw hundreds and thousands of myself moving at the same time. I try to walk towards the light illuminating the infinite passageway of portals, but as I do so, it grows incredibly bright for a moment, then suddenly collapses into a single point.

I found myself back at the break room, completely disoriented, not knowing where right or left is. It took me a few minutes just to find the couch, thinking I can focus on it and start getting my bearings back. But I knew what I saw. When the light grew its brightest I saw the strange shadow again. I was sure that I needed to find the shadow again, because that’s where Master could be. I just... knew. I thought then that if I found the shadow, I would find Master too.

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