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Last night, the candle gutted low. I sat bound to my chair, not by rope, but by a lethargy of the soul. In the mirror, the room was lit by a spectral, sickly green light that did not exist in my library. The reflection stood. It stepped away from the frame’s edge.

It reached out a hand, dark as the metal itself. The surface of the mirror rippled like water disturbed by a stone. I tried to scream, but the silence of the room choked me. The hand passed through the barrier, cold as the grave, and gripped my wrist.

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