The two Valdradas live for each other, their eyes interlocked; but there is no love between them.
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Valdrada exists twice: once on the lakeshore, once upside down in the water. Nothing happens in one that the other does not repeat.
Touch the water, or lower your gaze to the surface and past it: the picture turns slowly over around the waterline until the other Valdrada stands exactly where the first one stood, and it is no longer clear which of the two you are looking at.
But the mirror does not give things back unchanged. Light a window, and its twin on the other side goes dark. Every gesture has its reflection, and every reflection reverses it.
Quotations are brief excerpts for the purpose of commentary. The full text is available in published editions. The Cities of Ottavia, Valdrada & the soundtrack are inspired by "Monument Valley" from ustwo games.