37.Robert Red was by the bathroom's basin.
With his hands on the ceramic edge, wide elbows, head tilted forward, like he was about to throw up.
Seeing that there was no retching, he lifted his face. He looked at his reflected image and stared at the man's eyes in the mirror.
In turn, Robert Red reciprocated the tired, sad, and upset look of his double.
The silence that fell after the mysterious man vanished into thin air just as he arrived was like the one in sidereal space: frightfully soundless and echoes of unnatural silence.
Robert kept looking around. Through the mirror, he observed the bathroom, then the door, then again himself and the room, then the door yet again.
He continued to look in the mirror, terrified to look away from his reflected image as if it were an anchor to c
