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🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃
to everyone，and Margaret and Thornton ♡
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Short version:
While traveling, Margaret runs into a middle-aged male ghost who won’t leave her alone, and after all that and this and the other… everything ends happily.
A biter long version：
Edith dragged herMargaret into trying out an old legend.
It was said that on Halloween Eve, an unmarried vampire could hold a special aluminum mirror, walk down the stairs backward, and see their future lover in it.
Edith saw a man in a military uniform, but Margaret’s mirror showed nothing. Strangely, not even her own reflection appeared — aluminum mirrors were supposed to reflect vampires (normally,only silver ones wouldn’t).
Not long after, Margaret turned eighteen and had to complete her family’s coming-of-age trial: a journey around Britain. She thought it sounded fun — a chance to see all sorts of creatures.
Margaret walked all the way from the South to the North. One day, crouching in a shadow to avoid the harsh sunlight, she saw a ghost. He wore a wool coat and a high-collared shirt, his collar perfectly neat, quietly blending into the darkness.
From that day on, he followed her silently, always keeping a few steps behind. No matter what Margaret tried, she couldn’t shake him off. She walked faster, he walked faster. She stopped, he stopped.
One night, as the candlelight flickered and the cold wind rattled the window, Margaret curled up on her bed, staring at the ghost who was now only a finger’s width away. The air was dangerously sweet. Then she suddenly remembered ghosts didn’t show up in mirrors.