The Mirror Maze Keeps One
horror◐ Teen"We split up," Jay said. "Cover more ground, find the exit faster." Nobody loved it, but he was already walking. We broke into pairs, the flashlight beam slicing between glass walls. Within seconds I couldn't hear the others anymore, just my own footsteps and my reflection matching them.
I heard Maya scream off to my left and ran toward the sound, smacking into mirror after mirror. Every reflection of me looked terrified, except one near the corner. That one looked calm. That one was already waiting for me.
What happens next?
2 ways forwardI lunged away from the calm reflection and it lunged too, but the wrong way, toward where Maya's scream had come from. I followed it through a gap in the mirrors and found her, frozen, staring at her own reflection. I grabbed her hand and the spell broke. We ran together toward the salt wind and made it out, gasping, onto the pier.