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What dwells in the world behind the glass of your mirror? What lurks behind the reflected corners, the places your eyes can't reach?

"Nothing," you retort. "There *is* no world in there, just a trick of basic optics giving the illusion of depth and space where there isn't any." And in twenty-three out of twenty-four hours you'd be right.

In the twenty-fourth hour, the hour centered around midnight (the Real midnight, not Summertime), you'd be right nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand. And the other one time in a thousand is hard to tell; the Other Place is good at imitating true reflection. Maybe "your" face smiles back a little too broadly; maybe the mirrored colors are ever so slightly too bright or dim; maybe the reflected movements lag or run ahead a fraction of a fraction of a second.

It is best to take no chances. If you see your reflection in the hour around midnight, keep looking at it, and back away until it is out of view. The Other Place must mimic reflection as long as it is observed, and it cannot manifest when there is no longer a real person present for it to "reflect".

If the Other Place is there in the mirror, and you turn your back, what harm will happen? Nine hundred and ninety-nine times, none: the wall between worlds will hold, the Other Place will squirm furiously and impotently against the glass, and you will walk away and never know.

What will happen in the other one time, when the wall gives and the mirror opens and the people of the Other Place come through, silent and swift and fluid, is something I do not want to tell and you should not have to hear.