Arnika's Mirror (Magic Mirror)

Anika Rose was a nervous and rather too imaginative child, born to wealthy protective parents. Heavy shutters barred her windows and a bodyguard walked close behind when her nanny took her out into the city's streets. With so much to protect her from the world, not surprisingly she grew to feel it was full of invisible threats and dangers.
Like many other children, she feared the footstep on the landing in the night and the dark beneath the bed, but her nanny, always there to protect her, would check beneath the bed and close the heavy door that led onto the landing. One place that Nanny could not check, however, was in the reflections in the mirror on the wall; Anika became convinced that something grotesque lived inside the mirror, something that hid if you peered into the glass but would watch you in the dark.
As she grew, she became more paranoid about the mirror. Her worries became more than a child's anxiety (and as they grew, the bogeyman that she had made grew, too). She could feel the Thing staring at her in the night. Before long she became terrified that the Thing might learn to get out, and that it might do awful things to her. And then, of course, it was only a matter of time before that came to pass.
When Anika's funeral was over, the family sold off the contents of her room. The mirror was sold along with the rest, a tall, attractive, gold edged looking-glass. It is guaranteed to find a wealthy buyer. And the bogeyman still lives in the mirror; it still looks out in the dark when no one can see, its stare like a cold breeze, and it knows how to get out at night.
Category:Shaman Magic Items
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Category:Magic Mirrors