The draft of Echoes Chapter 3333 "The Weight of a Shared Lie" opens with the Other's confession: "I showed him a false image... The one thing I swore I would never become. A mirror that lies." Caelia's response reframes the betrayal: "We became what we needed to be. Together." The chapter then explores the burden of maintaining the decoy — "A lie told to protect is still a wound, but it's a wound we share" — setting up the continued tension of the Rhys arc as the hunted must now feed the lie to keep the hunter diverted.