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The delay grew. Soon, the reflection moved with a languid, serpentine grace that my own fevered, trembling body could not mimic. While I sat paralyzed by a growing dread, the thing in the mirror smiled—a slow, terrible stretching of the lips that revealed teeth which seemed too sharp, too white.

"At last, the exchange is made."

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It began with a whisper. Not a sound heard by the ear, but a resonance felt in the marrow of the bone. I would sit reading, and compelled by an irresistible gravity, I would look up to find my own gaze staring back. Yet, the reflection was never quite synchronous. When I raised a hand to brush the hair from my brow, the image in the black mirror delayed—a fraction of a second, perhaps, but in that fraction lay an eternity of malice.