Reflection
Legacy Name: Reflect

She stopped, hand hovering above the door handle. Part of her thought she had seen her reflection in the mirror behind her move out of the corner of her eye, a thought that had plagued her mind for several days now. Taking a deep breath she opened the door and left, knowing she would never be able to turn and look into the mirror even if she had wanted to.
Behind her, as the door closed, her reflection tilted its head, a wicked grin spreading across its face.

She stood staring into the mirror, eyes locked with herself as tears streamed down her face, unsure why she was even doing this. She held in a scream as she stared, frustrated and terrified. Everyone said she was loosing her mind to a childish fear, said there was something wrong with her or that she was just imagining things, but she knew. She had seen it several times now, her reflection moving of its own accord out of the corner of her eye or it standing still, staring into the back of her head as she turned away from the glass. Yet every time she looked back, her reflection was always the same, wide-eyed and shaking yet otherwise normal.
It didn't matter where she was, if there was a mirror in the room her taunting reflection would always be there. Others never seemed to see what she did, others carrying on their lives as she fled mirrors in public places.

Her mirror image smiled as it leant towards the glass and winked, causing the scream to be torn from her throat as she stumbled backwards. Caught like a deer in headlights she watched as her reflection laughed, reaching up to its face with sharp nails. It tore at its face, pulling the flesh away like paper to reveal a beastly figure beneath, the room behind it fading away to become a black void.
She stumbled to her feet, her vision blurred by tears as she ran for the door, tripping over the corner of her bed and slamming into the wood. She frantically yanked on the handle, finding the door jammed and unmoving and behind her, the faint echo of a laugh left the creatures throat as it watched her calmly, pitch black eyes glistening with delight.

The beast reached out, claws gently tapping at the glass, each tap causing her to flinch. With a sinister smirk it darted forward, glass smashing outwards, stinging her skin as the shards flew past her. Claws dug into her shoulders as she scrabbled at the door, her throat raw from screaming. The pain of claws raking her back barely registered in her panicked mind as she threw herself against the door in a last-ditch attempt to escape. The beast pulled her back, causing her to fall and be dragged across the broken glass, the shards biting into her flesh. Slowly she was pulled into the darkness beyond the broken mirror, the beast closing its jaws around her neck as she feebly tried to fight back. With one final wrench she tumbled into the darkness, the last thing she saw being the flash of fangs in the dwindling light as behind her, the mirror's glass was pieced back together.
The room was left silent, every sign of a struggle gone, every drop of blood vanished. The only thing that remained was a small hair clip.

Her disappearance would always remain a mystery.

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