Zachariah was nothing if he wasn't curious.

At the very least, he was determined to get to an answer, and something very confusing had happened to him recently that he had ultimately found little explanation for.

Somehow, he had ended up sucked up through a mirror. Logically, he knew this was not a typical event and he likely should not fear mirrors, but since it had happened, Zachariah had avoided needing to use mirrors like he might just try to write around a particularly bad piece of code. Perhaps if he could find some explanation for the occurrence, Zachariah could beat down the ridiculous, illogical fear and go back to being willing to look at himself in the bathroom mirrors.

It wasn't like it was going to happen again, right? There was no reason to think it would.

Zachariah was still not entirely convinced it had actually happened, to be quite honest, but he could find no logical reason that it would not have happened other than the fact that the occurrence itself did not make any logical sense. There was no hidden world on the other side of mirrors, not except in fantasy stories, and yet he had lived it, breathed it, felt pain from it, and the memory didn't fade like a dream may over time. He was in a room with another man who had also ended up in the room, a man whom he had never seen before and likely could not have dreamed of if he was trying. There was definitely no way he could have dreamed up the incredibly odd path that came after, the way it crumbled, the way it pulled them towards a purple light and then pulled them out, freeing them and putting them back into Destiny City, leaving him to have to make his way back to the apartments at Destiny City University.

So if he couldn't find any reasonable explanation as to why it did not happen, it must have happened. It wasn't a hallucination or a dream. And if it had happened to him, it had definitely happened to others. He had seen others, mostly all a sea of unfamiliar faces, mostly all in strange costumes. Perhaps he could find some information if he just looked for it?

His first thought was that, perhaps, he could try the internet. That was where most people went to talk about whatever nonsense came to their minds, and it was definitely a place where some people might decide to go on about 'getting sucked into a mirror.' In fact, that was the search term he used first, figuring that it was the most logical explanation. He combed through the pages, looking for any references to the recent events, but he should have known better. His search terms mostly just gave him fantasy fiction and something about colourful ponies--

Mrrph.

He tried altering his queries a few times, going from, "destiny city mirror," which just gave him some information about a local mirror company, to, "mirrors are scary september destiny city," assuming that giving it a more exacting time may give him a more exacting answer.

And yet he found nothing.

The most he found was conspiracy theorists.

Zachariah, after two hours of taking himself down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, realized he was probably not going to get the concrete answers he was looking for via typing in a bunch of words in a computer.

He'd have to go find one of those ... costumed people, perhaps. If they actually existed.

Zachariah was positive that they must have.