CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 2: More Tales Of Beauty And Strangeness - Plot & Excerpts
Valente “A mirror is an imp that eats light,” the Queen said. “An imp aligned with the moon, the dark, and women. It is the nature of silver, both quick and slow. The imp has blue, veiny wings, and its eyes flash like a cat’s. Its heart has two parts: one of glass and one of mercury, which are the essential materials of a mirror. These parts war with one another; the glass is adamant and the mercury is soft, one cuts and one absorbs. You can see the results of their war in the mirror itself. The victory of the glass is in perfect reflection. The victory of the quicksilver is that the reflection is reversed.” The Queen closed her knurled, black-gloved hand around her daughter’s little fingers. She guided the paintbrush in the child’s grip, its bristles sodden with quicksilver like the long, braided hair of the moon. Together they made sweeping strokes over the surface of an oblong sheet of pristine glass. I. There is only one mirror.
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