He walked to the counter. “What is this?”
The corner of the display showed a counter: Remaining lives: 1 .
He never went back to Konsolinet to ask about it. But months later, he saw a listing on the Finnish online marketplace Tori: “Käytetty peli, musta kotelo, teksti ‘ECHO’. Hinta: 2,50 €. Nouto Joensuu.”
The disc was blank. The data side was now a perfect, unmarked mirror.