Maybe I should have added that while this is a countdown to something I'm super excited about, I'm not sure a single one of these will actually be happy. Hahaha.
This one is the KHUX spoiler one, so if you don't want to hear about any Streli's update, run!
Elrena splashed some water on her face, her gaze avoiding the mirror in front of her. It was always when night came that she saw the faces, instead of her own - worst, she sometimes saw her own face, except it was different, and it was almost worse.
She heard a giggle and closed her eyes. She didn't need the voices as well. She couldn't escape them. Anytime a mirror was close, she would hear them. Calling for her.
"Elrena! Come on, don't be shy. Look at me. What is it you're so afraid of?"
Everything, she'd think but not answer. "Elrena. Please. I'm alone. I'm afraid. Help me."
She hadn't meant to look. Her eyes just moved on their own. And now she was staring at a girl in the mirror, a girl that wasn't her. She was a few years younger than El, with ginger hair tied in twintails. She looked a lot like her brother. She was wearing a white dress, where a red flower bloomed on her chest. The flower bloomed and bloomed, staining the book she was holding. Elrena took a step back. The girl smiled at her. "Elrena, this hurts… I need your help. Please. It hurts…"
Elrena crushed her fist into the mirror, shards of glass cutting her hand. "Shut up. You're not real. You're not real and you're dead. I can't help you."
The girl laughed. "Of course you can help me! I'm so lonely… You can join me."
"Leave me alone! We barely knew each other. Leave me alone. Leave me alone." Elrena ran from the bathroom, but the voice wouldn't leave her. "Then bring me my brother. I miss him, I miss him so much. Bring him back to me. Our family can be back together again, Elrena. I just need your help."
As she ran, and ran, her reflection got caught into many things. Door handles, shiny tiles, and every reflection held a different face, all children, all begging. "Join us, Elrena. Let Lauriam join us too. This world isn't yours. Come back to your world, come back to us."
She kept telling herself that this wasn't reality. That it was just guilt talking, from leaving her world behind, for choosing to be a Dandelion and letting her friends die in a war, that she did what she had to. That she couldn't have saved them.
There was a door at the hand of the corridor, the one she was running to. But as her hand closed on the handle, she caught the reflection she feared the most.
Blonde hair. Sharp features. Slender figure. She knew it was her, but at the same time, these golden eyes were nothing familiar.
"You can't keep running all your life, darling." The voice said, and it did sound like a mature version of her own. "Stop shying away from your sins. Live with them. Give up that heart of yours and embrace the Darkness. You'll see how easier life is, once you give up everything…"
"SHUT UP!" She yelled as she opened the door to safety.
"SHUT UP!" She yelled as she opened her eyes, in her bed, sweating from the nightmare, shaking and gasping for air. That's why she avoided sleeping at all cost. She jumped out of her bed, out of her room, and hurried to another door in the corridor. It wasn't the same door as the one in her dream, but it led to the same person. The same safety. And when the handle reflected her golden eyes, she didn't react, because it was her reflection. She opened the door without knocking, sliding herself into the room, almost running into the arms of the one sitting on the bed.
"Larxene? That's unusual."
"Lauriam, I…"
He softened when hearing his old name. "Did you dream of Strelitzia again?" He wrapped his arms around her, allowing her to bury her face in his chest, hiding her tears. They shared a bond no one could understand. Shared a past no one could believe. And shared a guilt no one could imagine.
They both were used to running from mirrors, for they only ever reflected their sins, wearing the face of a young girl with a bright smile and a red flower blooming on her chest.
Song 2 : Mirrors - PVRIS
4 days to go.
