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Always maintaining that analytical distance that serves tactical advantage over authentic emotional engagement.

But the glass labyrinth operates beyond conscious control or strategic manipulation.

Embedded technology responds to autonomic functions and subconscious responses that transcend deliberate direction orcalculated performance. Truth emerges through pathways that analytical intelligence cannot monitor or regulate.

The first barrier requires blood activation through contact with specialized sensors.

Not random violence but measured sacrifice that demonstrates commitment to advancement despite personal cost and physical compromise. The mechanism responds to genetic markers that confirm identity rather than simple hemoglobin presence.

I approach the barrier with characteristic directness.

My scarred hand finds the activation surface without hesitation, enhanced perception having mapped optimal contact points through architectural analysis and technological assessment. The sensor responds immediately to genetic confirmation.

Blood flows with controlled precision across crystalline surface.

The barrier recognizes my authorization through DNA analysis and administrative override, mechanical systems engaging to provide passage while recording biological data for institutional monitoring and entertainment documentation.

The door slides open with pneumatic precision.

Yet the passage beyond reveals not simple corridor but chamber filled with mirrored obsidian that reflects emotional state through surface manipulation and psychological amplification. Each step forward triggers additional revelation and systematic excavation of suppressed truth.

"Your turn," I announce with authority that acknowledges pack hierarchy while establishing procedural requirements.

Not request but systematic necessity that serves advancement over individual comfort or emotional preference.

The challenge demands comprehensive vulnerability from every pack member.

Especially her.

Especially the strategist whose psychological architecture proves most complex and carefully constructed.

The glass labyrinth awaits.

Ready to strip away every facade and reveal the foundational truths that define pack formation and individual motivation.

Truth becomes mandatory.

Lies become impossible.

And psychological excavation begins whether subjects prove prepared or not.

This is my domain.

My judgment.

My systematic revelation of everything they've hidden from themselves and each other.

The reckoning has begun.

THIRTY-SIX

CORVUS' CRUELTY PART II

~JINX~

The mirrored obsidian chamber surrounding us feels alive with malevolent intelligence, each surface reflecting not just our physical forms but psychological states I'd rather keep buried beneath tactical facades and strategic planning.

Every reflection shows something different.

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