'...Look my way.'
'Help me.'
'It's burning. I can't shake away the paint.'
The mirror tunes echoed silently in the air, their voices drifting in and out of my mind as I focused on immersing myself into the character.
I had just managed to do so when the tunes played again in my mind.
'Why is this happening to me?'
'...Where is this place?'
Unlike the tunes I was accustomed to near the Academy or the Safe Zones near the Empires, the tunes in this place were a lot louder.
It almost felt as though they were screaming inside my mind.
I wanted to make them stop.
They were disrupting my concentration and making things harder for me.
Walking out of the alley and moving past one of the windows, I caught sight of my own reflection staring back at me and then blinking. But I didn't blink. I know because I had purposely tried not to blink.
...Soon my reflection smiled, and I looked away.
I drew a deep breath.
