--- 📖 Chapter 36: Mirror, Mirror Part 1: The First Crack It started with a flicker. My reflection blinked… before I did. Then smiled. “I know what you did,” she mouthed. I stepped closer. “Say that again.” She raised a finger, drawing it slowly across her throat. A tiny crack split across the glass—thin and jagged. Then another. From the center outward. When I turned away to get Marissa, the mirror was whole again. And my reflection? Was still smiling. --- 📖 Chapter 36: Mirror, Mirror Part 2: The Room Behind the Glass Marissa returned with salt, chants, and an old incantation knife. The mirror hissed when the salt touched it. We pried it from the wall. Behind it? A hidden door. We broke it open—and found a narrow passage lined with candles long melted down. At the

