Hi everyone!

First off, GOD DAMN! I've been gone a while! I've been super busy with my online classes and then I went on a trip for two weeks without my laptop! I'm sorry I've been gone so long. FORGIVE ME!

I so didn't mean to take this long and with school starting up I was busy. I literally wrote this before I left but I forgot to upload before I left for my trip and got back literally yesterday.

Ok so, the link I'll be sharing isn't the whole chapter/story because I'm doing a trial run. I've taken an excerpt from Chapter 3. So if you're interested in the voice over of this story try the link below and if it doesn't work then there's one in my profile that should work. Message me if it doesn't k?

~The Girl With Glass Wings~~

The Land Of Mirrors And Memories' Purpose

Dave's POV:

Ok this is just getting creepy. It's been a few days since Caitlin showed up but she seems to know practically everything about us. I mean it's like she's known us forever. She's practically Karkat's best friend, she draws with Terezi, she lets Kanaya dress her up like some doll, she plays fucking Fetus Spawn with Tavros, and that's not even close to all of it.

I'm currently sitting on the couch with Karkat and watching Caitlin laugh her ass off with John after they'd had a horrible back and forth mocking session of each other. I mean sure it was funny but it's just bugging me how much she knows about us. Her impression of John was spot on and she even mentioned John's hatred of Betty Crocker shit. She couldn't possibly know that.

"Dave? Meteor to Dave! How you doing over there space cadet," I snapped out of my thoughts when Caitlin calls to me from the floor. Her cheeks are red from the lack of air from when she was laughing and she had an enormous smile that showed off her missing front tooth. It was the tooth right next to her slightly over bitten front teeth. They weren't as bad as John's but it was noticeable if she smiled like that. The missing tooth was on the right side of her front teeth. It was actually kinda cute. She's pretty self conscious about it though. I should ask her how she lost it later.

"Oh I'm having a blast in space, Cherry Girl," I tease back, deciding to use those red cheeks of hers as the target of my tease.

"Hmpt. Well I was going to ask you, John, and Karkat if you wanted to visit my medium but you seem pretty content in the stars over there so maybe I'll just take them," She says back with a huff. Fuck I think I upset her.

"Hey hey. Don't be mean. I was just joking."

"I know. Are you interested or not? I already asked John and Karkat earlier so we're all waiting on you."

"Oh. Yeah sure. I wouldn't mind going."

"Great! I'm gonna go get dressed then we can all go," She says that so excitedly I can't help but crack a smile. She gets up off the ground, and rushes out of the room to go get dressed.

"Hey Strider? I've got a question," Karkat pipes up once Caitlin's gone. John sits up to hear the question himself but doesn't stand. He crosses his legs in that whatever it's called style with applesauce somewhere in the name and listens with his dorky smile on his face.

"What is it Karkles?"

"First, don't call me that! Second, does anyone else feel like something's wrong with her?"

"What do you mean, Karkat? She seems fine to me," John responds from the floor. Clueless as ever I see.

" Yeah I've noticed a few things. What about you?" I ask, crossing my arms over my ironically cool red t-shirt. Karkat sighs and thinks for a minute before speaking again.

"Like, I don't know, weird things. Like how she know so much about us or that she seems to know her way around the meteor despite her only having been her 3 fucking days?"

I nod and push up my shades on my nose to keep my eyes hidden, "Yeah I noticed. Good to know I'm not the only one seeing it."

"I found it pretty weird that she seems to know exactly what bothers everyone. Like EVERYTHING. She knew Kanaya hates mismatched clothing, Terezi hates those Skittle candy things that have colors that don't match the flavors, or that Rose hates it when her books are messed with. She knows every prank I'll pull before it happens. It's kinda creepy."

Huh. Maybe he's not as unobservant as I thought.

"True. She knows all of our weaknesses but she just met us…," Karkat observes but shuts up when Caitlin comes back in the room. She was wearing a pair of light blue high waist jeans and a pastel yellow shirt with a watch symbol. Kanaya made them for her. Kanaya makes pretty much all of Caitlin's clothes because she doesn't tell the vampire troll to stop. Eh, whatever keep my sister's girlfriend happy I guess.

"Ready guys? We need to go to the portal," She says happily but her smile drops at the serious atmosphere in the room, "Um… Guys? Is everything ok?"

Shit, shit, what do I tell her!?

"Oh I was just asking Karkat why he hates buckets so much," John responds quickly with a laugh causing Karkat to break out in a blush and stand up from the couch. He tackles John and a slur of curses and "you don't want to know" came pouring from his black colored lips. He weakly slaps John's arms since he'd put them up in defense of his face and laughs. As perusal.

"Pfft. Nice John. Well come on," Caitlin laughs herself and buys the lie (We think) then gestures for us to get up.

"Yeah yeah. We're coming," I respond and hold my hand out lazily to her. She rolls her eyes and grabs my hand, pulling me up to stand.

Once Karkat got up, we all headed down the teleport pad that we all had thought was broken until John found Caitlin's medium. We all watched Caitlin get near it and it just "magically" turned on. We don't know what happened but it only turns on if she's near the portal to or from her medium.

"Ready guys? I'm so excited to show you my medium! You're gonna love it," She says and jumps towards her portal. She disappears into her medium and Karkat follows soon after, then John, then me.

Now, going through a portal is a weird feeling. It's pretty quick but you get this moment of just floating in space for a moment and it makes you pretty dizzy if you don't close your eyes. Staring into the inky blackness around as you move can make you nauseous and dizzy. It made John throw up once when he tried it. But just like he is, he got up and laughed about it. He didn't say what he saw but I don't think he liked what he had seen. I've been thinking about trying it but I'm not sure it's worth barfing over.

I feel myself float for a moment as I pass through the portal and then my feet firmly plant on the ground. Perfectly green grass that was about 10 inches tall was what I stood in from the feel and I opened my eyes. My shades blocked out the bright light of her medium as I looked around. The same four trees stood to my left and a circle of twelve trees. Caitlin, John, and Karkat all stood in the clearing between the two circles where the portal was.

"There you are slowpoke! What took you so long? You didn't hesitate did ya," Caitlin laughs and spins around on her heels. Her yellow hightop shoes tear up some of the grass as she turns towards the four trees that were shaped into a small square. There was roughly…mm… 5 feet between each tree and they all have a different color of bark. Blue, Red, Green, and Purple. One for each one of us humans. But Caitlin's human right? Where's her tree?

"We start our tour with these trees! Go ahead and look but don't touch. The mirrors are VERY fragile," She warns and steps over to John's mirror, "This is John's. See how the bark is blue? That's John's color! Then his name is engraved in the bark and the trim of his mirror is gold because he's a Prospit dreamer!"

She sounds so happy as she speaks but she didn't explain the mirror that only showed darkness right now. I decided to ask about it, "Hey so, what does the mirror do?"

She tensed at the question but answers, "Um… it's harder to say then to show."

What the hell does that mean?

We all watch Caitlin move over to stand in front of John's mirror before putting her hands over her heart. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before her fingers began to glow a faint yellow. She opened her eyes half way and reached out to lightly touch her fingertip of her right hand to the middle of the mirror. Karkat and John moved to Caitlin's right side and I moved to her left to watch her actions.

She moved her fingertip in a perfect circle before she whispered something and the mirror cleared up. The mirror showed John at his desk, messaging someone. A small date appeared at the bottom of the oval shaped mirror. Caitlin pulls her hand back and opens her eyes fully, taking a small step back to let us watch.

The date read: 4/1/09

Almost two weeks before we entered the game and John looked at the mirror intensely. He looked pretty freaked out that he was being shown his past. I looked over to Caitlin for a moment while John and Karkat watched the memory.

Caitlin was staring at the ground, a dark look across her face. She sighed lightly before rubbing her arms nervously. Once John remembered the moment being shown, Caitlin clapped her hands together which made the mirror darken once again.

"The mirrors show the entire timeline of a person. Everyone has their own mirror to display their timeline. The mirrors represent that person's entire life force. If the mirror breaks, the life of the person who the mirror belonged to ends completely. Meaning they've died. If they're scratched the mirror heals as the person heals. I know it's complicated and I know that it's creepy but that's how it works."

Our… Life force?

"I'm the guardian of everyone's lives. Watching and helping and healing. I'm a glitch, Guys. The only reason I was brought into the game was because of a stupid mix up with a game file and my computer glitched out and pulled me into the game against my will. I was… I was trapped here in my medium alone until Dave and John found me the other day," She says. I don't think she's telling us the whole truth but I listened. John and Karkat listened pretty quietly too as she explained what happened to her.

I didn't know that she was alone here. But now that I think about it… I haven't seen a single imp. Or some freaky whatcha-ma-call-it animal things.

She was here all alone for fuck knows how long without anyone to talk to. I think.

Caitlin tries to speak again but something in her pocket makes the ding for a Pesterchum message. She pulls a pair of fake hipster style glasses that were flashing. Looks like she prototyped something with her glasses to have a messenger.

She looks at the name flashing on the screen and puts the glasses on, "I'll be right back guys. I need to take this. Go ahead and explore some. I'll only be a few minutes. Just don't touch anything, please! I don't want someone's life messed with! I'll be right back."

She speaks before turning around and running off a ways to take the message. Who the heck contacted her?

Caitlin's POV:

They had to contact me know of all times. Why now? I was in the middle of speaking! It better be important…

-trinaryDraconian [TD] began pestering timelockedSurvivor [TS] at 1:27pm-

…K-Koniax…?