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Reflection
When the mirror doesn't recognise you, will you still be able to?
Red splashes blend with freckles and half-healed scars. She'll never be the same. Ink will hide white fingertips and lips will be sealed shut, forever keeping you from her.
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She is supposed to start where she left off before all of this started. School. Family. Friends. Instead, she strays from everything. She allows herself to diminish in a black sea of students and brothers and shadows.
They worry about her. But not as much as they should.
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When the mirror doesn't recognise you, no one else will, either.
She picked up the sharp end of her quill, laid her wrist down on the desk of an empty classroom, and smiled at her reflection in the window.