identity -= (each_mask.created()) -> reflection.hollow()

In his quiet workshop, Felix devotes his life to crafting masks, each more lifelike and unsettling than the last. But when he receives a strange commission to create a mask in his own likeness, his world begins to unravel. As he meticulously sculpts his own features, he notices subtle changes in himself—fragments of memories slipping away, strange delays in his reflection. Soon, he starts seeing figures in the streets wearing his face, each doppelgänger embodying pieces of his soul, and realises with dread that he’s losing himself, piece by piece.

Drawn into a desperate search for the mask that started it all, Felix faces a haunting truth: his identity may be gone forever, scattered across the faces of others. Now, only his hollow reflection lingers, waiting in the shadows of Halloween night, a warning to those who dare look too deeply into their own reflection.

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