F O R T Y T H R E E

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Okay this dude, is nuts! He's gone! Bonkers!
I stare at him. Then the room.

"I know you don't believe me, child. But I can prove you that I'm not crazy. YOU are blind."

I don't say a thing.
We walk towards a mirror. It's a big and round one.

"Mirror mirror on the wall..." he starts with a soothing voice.
"Okay stop! I want to go!"
"DON'T INTERRUPT!" he shouts. He starts again with a sharper voice.

"Mirror mirror on the wall! Who is going to kill us all?"

With that said, the round mirror begins to shine. And when my eyes adjust to the brightness, I can see only one thing. A person. Rick.

"He is going to kill us all?"

"That is what the mirror says, child. And it's never wrong."

"Now, look in another mirror, girl."

I do as he says and I turn to another mirror. This one is bigger and it's in the shape of a square.

I don't see me.

"What do you see?"

"Nothing" I say shaking.

"WHAT, DO YOU SEE?!"

"A mirror" I say, a tear drops from my eye.

"Yes, this mirror belongs to me. And I have a past with it." He looks at me like he wants me to ask about it.

"How?" I ask.

He smiles, satisfied.

"It was some years ago, maybe a hundred?"

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