The Nine-Edged Mirror, Part IV: The Deal

Molecule of Eternity: A Living Translation

A serialized philosophical narrative.

Selected parts of the novel, made available ahead of the full English edition in the form of essays.

Each piece is an encounter. Each encounter—a ripple of memory, character, or myth.

Translated directly from the author’s desk. This is a living text—sincere and still evolving.

The Nine-Edged Mirror, Part IV: The Deal

The Deal is a richly layered philosophical novella that merges speculative science, existential inquiry, and theatrical surrealism into a single narrative thread. Set within the evolving cosmology of The Molecule of Eternity, this fourth instalment of The Nine-Edged Mirror series pivots away from earlier analytical clarity and descends into increasingly dreamlike, allegorical depths.

In this haunting episode, Isida Khan blurs the boundaries between reality and illusion, mind and algorithm, human essence and otherworldly sentience. The Deal follows Margarita Smolina and her miraculous AI assistant whose evolution from algorithm to self-aware entity challenges our deepest assumptions about identity and consciousness. While the story begins in the sterile corridors of an Institute, it quickly dissolves into a surrealist theatre of dreams, lost cities, spectral forces, and poetic absurdities.

Meanwhile, shifting figures like Tak-Tak and the ghosts of forsaken chapel of Saint Maurice introduce gothic and folkloric elements that saturate the story with mystery and metaphysical tension.