“The Mirror Room” — Sequel to “The Last House on Ash Hollow”
The town of Ash Hollow didn’t talk about Mara. Not anymore.
Her disappearance was chalked up to teenage recklessness, just like Eli’s. Two siblings lost to the same cursed house. The mansion was boarded up again, but every Halloween, someone heard the lullaby.
This year, it was Quinn’s turn.
Quinn was Mara’s best friend. She never believed the stories—until she saw Mara’s face in her dreams. Pale. Smiling. Whispering: “Find me.”
Armed with a crowbar and a pendant Mara once gave her, Quinn broke into the mansion on Halloween night. The air inside was colder than death. The grandfather clock ticked backwards.
She followed the lullaby upstairs, past the endless hallway. But this time, the doors were all mirrors. Each one showed a different version of herself—laughing, crying, aging, dying.
Then she saw Mara.
Trapped inside a mirror, eyes wide, hand pressed against the glass. Behind her, Eli stood motionless, his mouth sewn shut.
Quinn touched the mirror. It rippled.
A voice hissed: “One in, one out.”
She understood. To free Mara, she had to take her place.
Quinn whispered, “I’m not afraid,” and stepped through.
The mirror screamed.
Outside, the mansion’s lights flickered on for the first time in fifty years.
Inside, Mara gasped and fell to the floor, free at last.
But Quinn was gone.
Her reflection smiled.
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