The Mirror Maze Keeps One
horror◐ Teen"No way are we splitting up," Maya said. She grabbed my sleeve. "We stay together, we find the door, we leave." We linked arms, all six of us, and shuffled forward as one clumsy chain through the cold glass corridor.
We found a door, finally, low and crooked in the glass. Maya yanked it open and cold air rushed out. But the room beyond was just another Hall of Mirrors, identical, and there we were on the far side, already standing inside it, waving back at us.
What happens next?
2 ways forward"It's a trick," Maya said. "Don't go in." We backed out slowly, never turning our backs on the waving copies. We retraced the chain, arm in arm, until the real draft hit us and we spilled outside. All six, shaking, alive. But Maya's reflection in the dark water below the pier kept waving long after she'd stopped.