Kagami
feared looking in mirrors. A woman always waited beside her reflection, wanting
to drag her in. She didn't know why, just that it could happen.
But
one day, Kagami was careless with a spoon. Polishing it, looking at its shiny surface,
she was dragged. Beside her, in an otherwise empty world, the woman stood.
Kagami,
trembling, asked, "What do you want?"
The
woman pointed to the corner of her mouth, then at Kagami's. "Your lipstick
has smeared."
Kagami
whipped the smudge and was pushed, falling back into her own world, where she
took care to look in the mirror.
