Aron Mell

Threshold Institute · Staff record

Name

Aron Mell

Role

Night guard of the observation wing; taken by the mirror

Years

To year 9

First file

T-007 Mirror

Aron Mell was a night guard of the observation wing, which was built in year 8 so that the cells could be watched without opening them, through containment mirrors of one-way glass (T-007). Every mirror was to be covered at the end of a shift (T-007). In year 9 one was left uncovered overnight, and Mell stood his watch on its near side. In the morning his post was untouched and he was gone (T-007).

His reflection was not in the glass. The mirror was, wearing Mell's face and uniform and holding a copy of his rifle (T-007). It followed the day guard, Rune Falk, out into the yard as his reflection and came at him when he stopped to stare at it, and Mara Okafor's team brought it down there (T-007). The rifle in its hands had no working parts, and Mell was never found (T-007).

The Institute's third rule came from that night: nothing in the cells reflects. The wing's mirrors were taken out, and the cells were watched by camera (T-007). In year 20 a room on the sealed level was found with its contents on the ceiling. Dr Selma Kader set it beside the mirror, the double that was upside down and mirrored, and wrote that the room and the double came from the same place (T-014).

In the case files

Aron Mell is named in one case file. The last column says where in each file.

Part I: The tear

File	Found	Where named
T-007 Mirror	Year 9, month 3, day 14	Discovery, Addendum T-007-A, Addendum T-007-B