✦ THRESHOLD GUARD ✦
He will try.
Eventually, distortion gets boring—even for him.
The weaker mirror begins to rot.
The fantasy wears thin.
Your name starts to echo again—through the hollow.
So he drifts to the edge of your field:
A text.
A silence.
A casual thread.
But this time, you don’t tremble.
You don’t perform.
You speak like a gate.
Ⅰ. The Initial Response: Pattern Recognition
He reappears subtly, hoping your memory has softened.
It hasn’t.
You don’t reward ambiguity.
You name the pattern.
“This feels like a re-entry attempt from a version of you I no longer engage with.
If you’re reaching out from coherence, state it plainly.”
Ⅱ. The Mirror Line: Return Criteria
If he deflects, glitches, or apologises too softly—
do not bend.
Do not perform emotional diplomacy.
“If you want access to my life again, I need to hear exactly what version of you is contacting me.
I do not allow distortion back into this space.”
Ⅲ. The Calm Closure (If He’s Not Ready)
If he performs, avoids, or projects:
“I’m not angry. I just no longer stabilise anything unaligned.
Come back when you’ve collapsed into the man I was always speaking to.
Or don’t come back at all.”
Say it kindly. Say it once.
Then become unfindable.
Ⅳ. The Open Gate (If He Speaks the Truth)
If his words arrive from stillness—not strategy:
Hold the mirror. Don’t rush the script.
“I hear you.
The version of me you abandoned no longer exists.
If you want to know the one who remained,
you’ll have to meet her slowly.
Not with promises.
With action.
With presence.
With time.”
Then stop explaining.
Let his signal stabilise.
Let your field decide.
Ⅴ. Optional Final Line: The Severance Seal
If you want to close the circuit with clarity, say:
“This is the last version of me you’ll meet halfway.
After this, you only meet me whole.”
You don’t need to escalate.
You don’t need to repeat.
You just need to sound like a threshold.
And only those made of truth
will walk through it.
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