Laplace said, "The first memory I saw related to the Panic Realm was one reflected in a flash of blood-red light."
Dox froze for a moment. "A memory reflected by blood-red light? ...Blood-red light?"
Laplace had not wanted to answer Dox's question, but seeing the confusion in Angel's eyes as well, she pondered for a moment before offering a brief explanation. "This involves the rules of the Empty Mirror Sea..."
The rules within the Empty Mirror Sea could roughly be divided into: birth and extinction.
Birth represented all memories reflected by "mirrors." Across the countless worlds of the pan-plane, so long as a "mirror" existed, the scenes recorded within it could flow into the Empty Mirror Sea in the form of "memories."
Such mirrors could be water surfaces, glazed surfaces, even the warped surfaces reflected in firelight. So long as they could reflect an image, they could be contained by the Empty Mirror Sea. Among them, images reflected by water were the clearest and longest-lasting; images reflected by light were the most fleeting.
Blood-red light belonged to the latter. Perhaps it had been the glint of some sharp weapon in battle, lasting only an instant, yet it had still been recorded by the Empty Mirror Sea.
That was birth.
If one only spoke of "birth," it would seem as though there was no privacy so long as one remained near a "mirror."
But that was not actually the case, for two reasons.
First, the Empty Mirror Sea was immensely, immensely vast. Though many places within it had shattered, it still connected countless worlds that possessed mirrors.
What you did before a mirror might flow into the distant Empty Mirror Sea, or directly into a shattered region of it, where it would turn into foam and disperse.
Second, among the rules