I lit candles and sat at the mirror as I’d done before, trying to re-create the conditions that had allowed me to travel into that dark world, a world in which Gray still lived and breathed. I listened intently for my whispered name to echo from the glass and peered into the mirror searching for that flickering candlelight, trying to put myself into that trancelike state again. But the mirror wouldn’t let me in. What is missing? I thought. And then I remembered. It wasn’t just Gray I was searching for in the mirror. It was that other girl—the one who looked like me but had no fear. Last time I’d stared at my reflection until my face had grown distorted, softened, and melded into hers. It was that mirror image that had allowed me to travel into the dreamscape while my body remained here. I stared into the mirror again, letting my eyes blur slightly until the image in the mirror no longer looked like my own reflection but like a separate being who happened to resemble me. But when I frowned, my mirror image seemed to smile.
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