Chapter 1 - Shatter
It was a dark room with no windows, no doors. Only a small hole in the wall where moonlight leaked through in a thin, trembling line.
That’s when I saw it.
Something in the corner. Something that shouldn’t have been there.
It pulled at my attention no not curiosity, not fear... something worse. Something I couldn’t name.
A white sheet hung over it, barely moving, as if it were breathing.
I didn’t want to know what was underneath. I really didn’t.
But somewhere deep inside me, something else did.
I stepped closer.
Each step felt wrong, like I was being dragged forward by something invisible. My hand trembled as I reached for the edge of the cloth.
"Don’t," a voice whispered in my head.
I took a breath anyway... and pulled.
A mirror.
Just a mirror.
Relief came for a second until I looked closer.
There was no reflection.
Only darkness. Thick. Endless. Darker than anything I had ever seen.
And then
crack.
A thin fracture spread across the glass.
“No... no, no no no ” I whimpered.
crack.
Another one.
Faster now.
Spreading and crawling like black veins across the surface. The mirror wasn’t just breaking... it was shattering toward me.
