Video // Mirror, Mirror...

[just_displaced]

[It's pretty hard to disguise the fact that his hands are shaking when he turns on the video, and even harder to disguise the fact that he's sitting on the floor somewhere, arms wrapped around his knees, steadfastly avoiding looking anywhere except the communicator.]

Has anyone seen...

[He shakes his head, a little too frantically.]

Okay. Let me start over. Has anyone been seeing... things in the mirror? Strange things? Things that shouldn't be there but that're definitely there? I think I might be going crazy. There's something there, and I'm not...

[Squeezing his eyes shut for a moment, he tries his best to get his thoughts together. It's an uphill battle.]

I've never hallucinated like this before. Other hallucinations, maybe, but not like this. Please tell me I'm not the only one, someone. I don't think I can take it much longer.

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[deadmanbusiness]

It's probably a curse, not a hallucination.

[just_displaced]

[He actually practically jumps in surprise when a response comes from the communicator, though really, he shouldn't have expected anything else. He's just a little... off, today.]

Is a curse better than a hallucination? Or is it worse? If it's a curse, that means it's real. If It's a hallucination, that means it's not real.

[deadmanbusiness]

That's kind of hard to say. Curses tend to only last a day. It also depends on what your definition of real is.

[just_displaced]

But this has lasted more than a day. This has been going on... I don't know how long. A couple days, at least. And then there was that feeling of dread we were having, which has gotta be connected somehow.

[deadmanbusiness]

Feelings of dread have not abated. But... [He puts his hands together pressing them up against his mouth so the finger tips are under his nose.] I would definitely say that this is related.

[just_displaced]

I know, I know, the feelings of dread are still there, and now there's this, and it's not just mirrors, it's most reflective surfaces. I'm just going to sit here on the floor until it goes away.

[deadmanbusiness]

Sorry. I haven't been sleeping well. I can't say I've been seeing anything scary in reflective surfaces but it's not unheard of. There is the saying after all that mirrors are the windows to the soul.

[just_displaced]

I don't want a window to my soul. That's a window that should be locked, shuttered, and covered with blackout shades. That's a window that should be entirely smashed, if at all possible. Nobody needs to see my soul, I don't need to see anybody else's soul, I don't need to see my own soul...

[deadmanbusiness]

Are you that bad of a person?

[Theo isn't sure what he'd see in regards to his soul. Well, no that's not completely true, he thinks he has seen a bit of his soul, the godly part, way back when he was eighteen. And it was a scary bastard.]

[just_displaced]

Yes. No. I don't know. That's why I don't want to see it. I don't want to know.

[deadmanbusiness]

Ah. Yes, the who am I in the dark question. The easiest thing to do is to cover up the mirrors and use plastic silverware.

[just_displaced]

That's what I did. That's what I'm doing. But I know it's still there, I know there's still...

[He shakes his head again, more fervently this time.]

The shadows. I know they're still there. And I know that if I look at them too much, if I figure out what they are, they'll hurt me.

[deadmanbusiness]

Well, yes. That's what shadows of your soul are supposed to do.

[just_displaced]

Right, because that's going to make me feel better. "Hey, you're hallucinating weird shit in the mirror again, Ginsberg, but don't worry, you're supposed to be seeing the kind of things that want to hurt you, because that's totally normal."

It's not totally normal. It's actually kind of insane, and it makes me feel like I'm a lunatic.

[deadmanbusiness]

You're not hallucinating. It really is there.

[He's still not being helpful, is he?]

[just_displaced]

Great. Just great.

[He's rocking back and forth slowly now, without even realizing he's doing it.]

Can it get out? Can whatever I'm seeing in the mirror get out?

[deadmanbusiness]

Noo... because if it gets out it can hurt you. It's better if it stays in the mirror realms.

[Theo politely ignores that.]

[just_displaced]

Yeah, of course it's better if it stays there, but will it stay there? In a place like this, anything could happen. In a place like this, those shadows... they could do just about anything, couldn't they?

[deadmanbusiness]

Yes. They could.

[just_displaced]

You know, you're almost laughably shitty at reassuring people of anything. I mean, I don't actually think you're trying to reassure me, but if you were, you'd be awful at it.

[deadmanbusiness]

Trying to reassure you about nothing bad happening in this case would be a detriment to you and your safety.

[just_displaced]

So what am I supposed to do? I can't just sit on the floor forever. I mean, I could, but that seems like a waste of my time, as tempting as it is.

[deadmanbusiness]

Covering the mirrors is a start.

[He taps his chin lightly.]

The rest of it this is a hard question to answer. I would suggest getting a dream catcher.

[just_displaced]

A dream catcher? Those things actually work? Believe me, the mirrors are all covered. I don't think I'll ever look in a mirror again.

[deadmanbusiness]

Well, they work in my world.