Chapter 10 JEACHANS MASK

Your thirty-second dialogue scene is called "Jeachon's Mask." **This is a fatal and heated game-changer of a chapter-for who and what **Jeachon is, the false persona he's been using, and what it means to wear a name that isn't yours.

🎭 *Scene: Jeachon's Mask – The Hall of *Forgotten Names **

\[Setting:]

Saiha and Adrah discovered a locked vault behind the portrait of the founders of the academy. It's filled with thousands of masks, each etched with a name - each linked to a lost identity crossed off the calendar. At the middle is a mask in silver with Saiha Jony Adrah Jeachon etched into obsidian glass.

ADRAH:

(reading the glass)

"'Property of the Temporal Preservation Council. Status: In Use.'

Saiha... what is this?"

SAIHA:

(quietly)

"My name... isn't mine.

Jeachon was a mask. A cover made after my soul made it through the Century Collapse."

ADRAH:

(frowns)

"You mean ... you were somebody else?

SAIHA:

"I was many someone elses. A dozen lives packed into that identity.

And when time shattered, the council stitched together what was left.

Saiha Jony Adrah Jeachon... it's not a name." It's a *prison. *"

*\[He removes the glass. The mask gently throbs with blue light - alive, in tune.] *

SAIHA (to the mask):

"You've covered for me long enough."

*\[He touches it. Instantly, the images pour into the room - bursts of his past selves: a noble assassin, a peasant prophet, a cursed lover, a betrayed prince.] *

ADRAH:

(staggering)

"These are *you? * All of them?"

SAIHA:

"They were. They're pieces.

And I've been using them like armor.'

ADRAH:

(steps forward, fierce)

"Then take it off.

I care if you're Jeachon or a nothing prince or a boy born of time.

I want *you. * The eye roller who takes on destiny with a book and a.