Bright Shimmer had an idea. She had noticed that Grenta's mirror had known where she was without even looking, so she thought it might know other things, such as the word to break her father's hypnotism.
She made her way, very carefully, to the queen's tower room once again, and when she got there she was glad, for Grenta was nowhere to be seen, and Bright Shimmer surmised that she had left to do other, most likely wicked, things.
Bright Shimmer entered the tower room and stood before the mirror. She looked in it and once again saw her own reflection. She really didn't want to see how she looked right now so she went right to the question.
"mirror mirror on the wall how can I unhypnotize my father?
The mirror responded in verse
You activate me with a rhyme
To use a magic mirror
But when my kin seek answers
Everything is clearer
There was a pause as the mirror searched for the answer to her question, then finally:
You need your mother's favorite flower in this case a bluebell
You give it to your father first and then right after
You'll free your father from this spell
With, "Pure and simple laughter"
Bright Shimmer pondered this. The second stanza was clear, she had to pick a bluebell and show it to her father then there had to be laughter around him. The first stanza, however, was more confusing. She had obviously messed up in asking without a rhyme, but what was that about her kin? She was pretty sure she didn't have any pieces of glass in her family but you never know. She turned around to ask the mirror what it meant but when she saw her reflection in the mirror she stopped. Behind her was her mother, Tenya, standing in the mirror. Bright Shimmer whirled around but there was no one behind her. She looked back in the mirror and there was Tenya standing behind her. She was staring at the reflection of her and her mother in the mirror when she saw, in the mirror, the handle of the door behind her jiggling, and knew that it was being opened. Bright Shimmer dove for cover behind a rack full of potion ingredients and waited for whoever it was to come in.