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For a moment Linda Everett froze, looking down at the wooden back of the mirror, and in this moment of bewildered terror what came to her was not her mother’s warning ill luck, but a poem she’d studied in high school. Some line in the middle of a Tennyson poem. She bent down and took it with both hands, feeling the almost delirious horror running in her veins like dark roots.
Parts of the mirror’s surface were still intact, but there were ugly, spindly cracks hacking the reflection apart like the cracks of thin ice across a frozen pond. She held it up, was trying to prop it up against the mantlepiece when she saw the reflections, both hers and the one that stood behind her.
She saw her own face, white and flabbergasted, grotesque in the broken reflection, and Carter Thibodeau, standing there in a pair of muddied jeans and a blue cop’s shirt rolled up at the sleeves, the thin dark mirror-cracks cutting lopsided across his waist, his shoulder, his nose, his chin, rendering in fractured pieces a bulky, looming boogeyman.
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- Part 7 of Somewhere in the Multiverse
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