Vanished
Windows
****************************************Ravi POV**********************************
He had already come to terms with what must have happened. it had been at least a month since he first got here… or so he thought. The light in this place never changed. it wasn’t dark but it wasn’t light here either. This place always stayed like it was at that point where the sun is so far past the horizon that you can’t see it but not far enough that it isn’t casting the barest hint of light. There was no sun here. Nor a moon or stars, but oddly enough he would sometimes find a place where lights worked or candles were lit. These places were usually near mirrors. He hadn’t figured out why yet either, but every once in a while he’d catch flashes. Times when the mirrors weren’t reflecting but showing other things. It was always gone before he could figure out. Then one time it wasn’t…
He’d been wandering again trying to find some way, any way to get out of here or even just find another person in here. It was starting to drive him crazy when he heard the faint sound of voices.
“Jagiyah. Illeona.” The voice was light and distorted and he thought he’d hallucinated it. So he kept walking.
“Aniyo. I want to stay in bed today. You should stay too.” A second voice spoke. This one he recognized.
“Y/n?”
“Y/n-ah. you know we have breakfast with my parents today. Gaja.” The male’s voice replied again. That time he was sure of it.
“Leo! Y/n!” He called out looking around. He wandered in one direction calling and stopped when he heard a loud growling noise that was too human to be animal but too primal to be anything human. He backed up in the direction he came from and almost fell over a vanity with over melted candles still burning on it. The movement sent a wind flying across them and they all extinguished but there was still too much light coming from the area. It was coming from the mirror itself. What should have been Ravi’s disheveled appearance instead was an image of Leo and y/n laying in bed. Taekwoon was smiling at her as she held his hand to her face.
“Y/n! Leo! Hey!” He pounded on the glass as hard as he could to try and get their attention.
***********************************Y/n POV***********************************
“Do you hear something?” You asked confused when there was another sound besides the two of you and your intermixed breathing.
“Aniyo.” Leo said listening for a second but relaxing when there wasn’t a sound.
“That’s funny I could have sworn I heard something. Gaja. I will go make some breakfast.” You said standing up and stretching. The mirror on the vanity thumped again and you looked around still not seeing anything. You walked past the vanity letting out a loud yelp when the glass cracked and exploded all around you.
“Gwaenchana?” Leo asked when the glass settled.
“Ne. I don’t- aish.” you hissed out in pain when you felt something in your arm.
“Don’t touch it. Come with me.” Leo led you into the bathroom and cleared off part of the counter top for you to sit down then went digging through the cabinets until he found what he was looking for.
*************************************Ravi POV*********************************
He hadn’t meant to break the mirror but when it shattered the damn thing disappeared and he went sprawling into the sand.
“bang-geum museun il?” He muttered looking around for another mirror his search was interrupted by a low chuckle.
“Mirrors are a funny thing in this world aren’t they? break them and they disappear along with any chance of you being saved from this place. At least until another one shows up, but there’s no guarantee that it’s from the same time period or for you. Each mirror in this place shows up when it feels like it. Trick is guessing which ones are yours and which ones don’t screw up the timeline.” A dark voice came from the shadow of one of the loose objects off to the side.
“What do you mean ‘screw up the timeline’?” Ravi asked trying to keep the voice talking so that he could find the source.
“How long have you been here?”
“A month? Wae?” He returned coming to the other side of an object empty handed.
“Wrong again. You have a lot to learn.” The voice chuckled at him. There was something familiar about it but he couldn’t pin down what it was.
“Try two years. That mirror was your best friend and your girlfriend, right? They seem to be awful cozy. That happen before or after you died. How did you die anyway. Friend blow your brains out? girl put a knife through your heart? yeogi.” The voice teased.
“Car ran a stop light and hit me while I was crossing the road. You?” Ravi asked.
“You know your friend, Leo was it, he looks really familiar and that girlfriend of yours is very yeppeuda. Getting warmer.” The voice teased changing the subject. Just keep talking jackass. I’ll find you. Ravi thought to himself.
“I thought the mirrors only worked for the person that they belonged to. Didn’t you just say that?” Ravi said coming up empty once again.
“I stopped being a person a long time ago. Rules don’t exactly apply to me. You humans are all the same by the way. You never look up.” All human quality to the voice disappeared and it became a mixture of monstrous sounds. The creature that appeared when Wonsik looked overhead was mostly human in form but the fingers were sharp like daggers and the eyes were white and empty but with the unsettling realization that the creature in front of you could see everything. It crawled in a disjointed skittering sort of way hitting some of the out of tune keys on the broken piano it had been perching on and Ravi backed away finally registering how screwed he really was. The thing let out a dark hissing sort of laugh and Ravi’s blood ran cold. It stood upright and walked towards him again it’s voice changing to a human tone.
“Relax. If I wanted you dead you would be. You can’t exactly help me get what I want, but your mirrors can. I’ll find you again when I need you. Not like you are going anywhere any time soon.”
“What do you need from the mirrors?” Ravi asked finding his voice.
“What else? A reflection.” The creature said with an amused tone. It was then that Ravi realized the most unsettling thing about this creature. It looked like his best friend….
