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One day a girl was standing in front of the mirror looking at her reflection. She thought about all the things that she didn't like about herself, the muck and the stain of being human; the dirt of it. And she despaired. Not knowing why, she leaned forward and kissed the cool surface of the mirror, the lips of her reflection. And the reflection kissed her back. The girl pulled back, surprised, and the reflection followed her out of the mirror. The reflection smiled, and suddenly the girl thought it very beautiful. They melted in an embrace and kissed again, and as they did so the girl felt the dirt, the muck and the taint, melting out of her. The two were inseparable after that. They went everywhere together, and all their friends thought they made a lovely couple - after all, they had so much in common! The girl was very happy, because every time she kissed her reflection, she would feel the muck diminishing from her. One night as the girl and her reflection lay together on their bed, the girl asked the question she'd been wanting to ask for a while. 'When we kiss, I feel the muck and the stain of being human leave me, a little by little. Where does it go?' 'I take it into me, of course,' replied the reflection. It opened its mouth to let the girl look down its throat. The girl could see, there inside the reflection, all the dirt and the muck that had left her since they had first kissed. Horrified, she jumped off the bed and smashed the mirror on the wall. She took a long shard of the mirror into her hand and plunged it deep into the reflection's throat. Its blood made a pool on the white linen and seeped into the mattress underneath, but as it gurgled and gasped and died, it was suddenly gone, as if the girl had just stepped away from the mirror. From that time on, the girl never felt the muck and the dirt in her, for they had disappeared with the reflection. But she no longer had a reflection, and in mirrors she only saw the room behind her. |