Her True Nature
Wondering into the forbidden forest is one of my favorite hobbies. You never know what you might wander upon. I never leave as the same person. I went right instead of left today. Following the sounds of the chirping birds and the trickling river. It just entered the season of fall so the bushes were still in transition from green to red. Gradually waiting for their inevitable death and rebirth. As I continued to stroll along the side of water, hearing the cruntch under my feet from the beginning leaves. I swear they stuck to the ground as if they were snow. A few meters down the path I realized I was reaching the delta of the river. A dead end. I was about to turn around when I saw something gold and shiny glisten from the corner of the lake. As I carefully jumped from rock to rock, a gold mirror began emerging from the river. Water began trickling down the sides of it until I reached it. And what I saw baffled me. When I looked in the mirror, all I saw was the reflection of a massive beast like creature with horns. “The mirror must be playing games with me..some sort of spell cast upon it” I said quietly to myself. But as I raise my right arm, the creature mirrored my exact move. I switched arms and did the same movement. The creature again mirroring the same. I then paused for a moment and threw both of my arms up and jumped, clicking my heels together. And no surprise the beast followed my exact movements. Even copying my perplexed facial expression. “Is this really me?”…..