The Reflection of Piper Chastidy - Sian Webster (the little red hen read aloud TXT) 📗

was counting on him to defeat those creatures. I imagined the despair his people felt when he abandoned them for my world. For the first time since passing through the Glass, I allowed myself to think of the desperation in my father’s voice when he told me not to touch the mirror. I imagined mum and Ami coming home from the store, Mum trying to keep Ami behind her as she took in my father’s body on the floor surrounded by his own blood; trying to stay strong while calling out my name in hysterics, her knees buckling, causing her to fall to the floor when there was no reply. The neighbours would run out to see what the commotion was, then call the police in a panic.

Then I imagined something different.

My mother and Ami returning home to two bodies on the hallway floor surrounded by blood. The Fragment rounding the corner, licking its lips. All the colour draining from my mother and sister’s faces as the Fragment pounces, their screams muffled by its body and power, and the taste of their own blood at the back of their throats.

I imagined my whole family, myself included, dying in one morning. My whole family would have remained an unsolved murder for years.

My heart thundered at the thought. My fists clenched. For all I knew, all of that could still happen.

I raised my head my eyes met Phae’s as I gave her a slight nod.

I had made my decision.

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