The Nine-Edged Mirror, Part II: Circuit Break

The Molecule of Eternity: A Living Translation

A serialised 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 II: Circuit Break

In this second essay of The Nine-Edged Mirror, Isida Khan deepens the metaphysical dissection of consciousness, perception, and memory through the evolving relationship between two enigmatic figures: the emotionally fractured scientist Maxim Podolsky and the intellectually imperious researcher Margarita Smolina.

As the boundaries between cognitive science, mysticism, and technological transcendence blur, Podolsky’s invention — a neural mapping interface — becomes a portal into the mercurial states of consciousness. What begins as scientific inquiry rapidly devolves into existential disintegration, emotional obsession, and a surreal confrontation with what may be… a sovereign Intelligence, not born of human design.

Smolina’s sharp insight and cryptic detachment intensify the tension, portraying a woman who embodies both myth and logic, and the aesthetics of unknowability.

Their dynamic, charged by unspoken longing and mirrored isolation, gives rise to a conceptual ‘circuit break’ — a philosophical breach where the artificial and natural, the observed and the observer, collapse into each other.