Reflected Reality

Chapter 9
The Mirror

Waiting was a game the Watcher had become very good at. For years it waited for the right person to appear in its forest. It waited in the Between-Place, watching both sides of the mirror. It had waited for so long it had forgotten its own exsistence and for whom it wanted to see. It was centuries before it finally sensed the time was near.

It was watching as the little boy explored its forest. It saw the little girl in the Other World. It smiled for the first time ever in its exsistence. As both of the children stumbled upon the clearing it made sure it could be seen in one of its forms. It made itself the portal linking their worlds, but it knew they couldn't be together instantly. There was more of the game they had to play.

Because all of those years waiting, it had only the calls of birds to keep it company. Now there were two people here that could sing for it. So it made the portal a mirror, a mirror who's glass would only brake if they sung a song to soothe the Watcher.

So they sung. The Watcher was pleased by their voices. It loved the way they harmonized, their voices intertwining and becoming one. It was lulled into a sleep it had never been able to have. It thought to itself how nice it would be to have these two here to sing for it for all eternity...

But then they left. Angry at how they left it to wake from its peaceful slumber, it disappeared. It vowed to never let the mirror be seen by another mortal again until it heard their beautiful singing again. So after four years, which only felt like a minute in its long life, when the children appeared again it was happy again. It waited for their voices and it heard them. So it let the mirror appear.

So now, with only a little song left to sing, it became ready for them being united forever. For there was one thing they had to choose...

Where they want to live. His world or hers.