Outside, it is a dark and stormy night. You made sure of that by setting the wind machine on its highest setting. You wait invisibly looking at your earlier self reading. When the wind causes a branch to fall, you watch your earlier self go to the window. And also to the door. You manipulate the window alternatives so he hears your warning about cycles, then ends up in the maze. The door alternatives include two that bring him into the maze, but also three fatal branches where you lose him, and two where he leaves the story. Still, you know that some of him will get through, since you are standing there as proof. You get him through the maze and into the large storeroom. To preserve yourself, you urge him to go on into the next room. You step into the mirror, and you stare intently at him as he makes up his mind what to do. He leaves, to become you. You wonder if the real success was not his becoming you but the two endings where he leaves the story. When he becomes you, the story cycles and now at the end you are left inside the mirror with no narrative to follow. You turn away and begin to examine the inside of the mirror. In the difference between front and back you find a hidden link.