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-l- Psychotic Saint -l- Captain
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 Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:17 pm
For Other Pieces, Click This!If you asked a dozen random people what had caused the current decline of man you’d end up with a dozen different answers. Truth was that no one really knew why things had turned out this way. The straw that broke the camel’s back was buried beneath all the rest of the world’s problems. Before it would have been cause for war, but now, now people had stopped caring. The why and how didn’t mean anything. All that mattered was the what; what are we going to do now?
Life as we knew it had ended but we all kept living. That was the problem. It wasn’t what we had expected, what we had planned for. We could deal with Armageddon, wrap our minds around nuclear holocaust. Death was easy to understand, but the thing was no one was dying. It was like the world was stuck in limbo with nothing to look forward to. There was no birth, no death, just the occasional disappearance.
In fact, most counted that as the first sign. Not the cause, mind you, but the fist mark of a horrible change. On that day, exactly six weeks before my twenty-second birthday, at three thirty-one in the afternoon twelve people disappeared. A year has passed and still we don’t know why or how they were connected if at all. Just randomly they vanished, never to be seen again. Not the real them anyway, but let’s save that for a little bit later.
Two hours and sixteen minutes after the disappearance of the twelve, the first Mirror showed up. Right smack dab in the middle of State Street in Chicago. Oddly enough, in a city of thousands where the traffic never stops, there is not a single person who could tell you how it got there. It was as if time had stopped for the Mirror’s appearance, only resuming once it was fully actualized. It was a good five minutes before anyone took note of the Mirror and decided to actually call the police.
Now I’ve been calling these things Mirrors quite a lot, as everyone who knows about them now does. However, do not think of this as what they actually are. It is merely something simple that the populace could call these things and still feel mostly sane. Mostly. In truth the only mirror like thing about them was their eerily shining metallic surface. Despite this, though, no animate object could ever be seen reflected within its depths. Only that which is dead appears in the Mirror, suddenly showing as the life leaves its body. The dead have no purpose, no use to the Mirror and so it is unmasked as what it really is. The living, however, the living are very important, our faces never once showing upon the glassy surface.
For you see, the Mirror needs us, needs something it can replace. The dead can’t do much, so replacing them would be pointless. To those deceased, the Mirror is just a mirror. But the living have so much potential. The living move and do and interact. The living can travel and persuade and kill. The living cause things and that’s what the Mirror wants, to cause things. Or so we’re pretty sure. One can never really be certain about the motives of something that’s not supposed to exist.
This new value placed upon living gave us animate creatures a new power, the power to pass through. The dead were left to rot on earth while the living were able to pass through that frame of fake glass and on to the other side.
The first recorded being to pass through was a cat; a mangy looking thing that one could easily assume had nothing left to lose. Well, we all know the trouble with assuming. Anyway, the scrawny thing hissed and clawed as it was brought forward, black fur standing on end as it was forced into scientific martyrdom. It knew nothing good was going to happen to it, could feel the evil in the Mirror. But a rational human’s curiosity always trumps an animal’s instincts and so the cat was thrown in, yowling all the way. That cat disappeared, never to come back.
This test performed on State Street at the first sighting was very informal, having been done by none other than a Walgreen’s employee with a thing against felines. Later scientists came in and took the Mirror, surprised by its portability. This time things were official, a healthy cat being used and rigged up with cameras and recorders and rope to pull it back in case it decided to flee. What they learned from that second test would change everything we had come to know about the world.
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:29 am
I really like it ^_^ you should definitely continue this!! I can say I'm hooked...and want to know what happened to the healthy kitty o.o.
You're doing great! I can't wait to see more of this story!
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-l- Psychotic Saint -l- Captain
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:38 am
Lady Pyrien I really like it ^_^ you should definitely continue this!! I can say I'm hooked...and want to know what happened to the healthy kitty o.o. You're doing great! I can't wait to see more of this story! I'd like to know what's going to happen to it too. Lol And thanks. That really means a lot to me. ^_^
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:04 am
-l- Psychotic Saint -l- Lady Pyrien I really like it ^_^ you should definitely continue this!! I can say I'm hooked...and want to know what happened to the healthy kitty o.o. You're doing great! I can't wait to see more of this story! I'd like to know what's going to happen to it too. Lol And thanks. That really means a lot to me. ^_^ I'm glad ^_^
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 1:04 pm
Awesome! smile
What happened to the first cat? Poor kitty. People are mean. sad
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:37 pm
Strangerthan Awesome! smile What happened to the first cat? Poor kitty. People are mean. sad First kitty died in a very gruesome and horrifying way that I have yet to write down. Poor kitty indeed.
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