"Okay, Ivy-too." She'd managed to sort through her own head. "You're telling me that I dove through a mirror and into the mirror realm plagued with Reflections who don't have a Counterpart. Is that right?"
Hiya! Pinterest gave me ideas!
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Ivy-too looked into Ivy's eyes and nodded. "In short, yes."
At least her Counterpart was able to understand the danger they were both in now.
Ivy burst into a fit of nervous giggles, her expression only betraying how terrified she felt. What the hell was happening?
"Okay. Well then, as the Reflection, you're the boss. What do we do now?" she managed through her laughing.
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Ivy-too only frowned. "I don't know. This has never happened. I guess the best thing to do is to try and get you back through a mirror," she said. Her voice seemed steady, but her actions were just the opposite as the Reflection was now standing and pacing. The hood of her cloak was down as well. Were anyone to walk in at that very moment they would see both look-alikes and know something was off.
"Until we find one, we need to get you something to disguise yourself. No one can know this happened."
"Okay," Ivy said, finally sobering up. "Can I chop off my hair? That'd probably help."
She was already looking for a blade.
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The Reflection shrugged. "I don't see why not," she said, assisting in Ivy's search for something to cut her hair with. There was a chance that her own hair would be cut as well at the same time, but there was also the possibility that it wouldn't. They were on the same side of the mirror now.
Ivy searched around, finally finding a rusty bit of metal with a relatively sharp edge. "Well, Ivy-too, I hope we're up to date on our tetanus shots." She held the hunk of metal up to her hair, sawing at a thick strand of her luscious dark hair until it fell to the floor.
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"Our what-" the girl was about to ask, until she saw the hair fall to the ground softly. The Reflection stared at it for a few moments, half expecting her own hair to fall as well. After a few seconds, Ivy-too didn't feel anything happen. She grinned at her Counterpart, happy that the idea worked.
Ivy grinned back. "That was kind of liberating." So she set to work chopping a good 3 inches of length all around. It took a minute, but when she was done she ran her hands through her new style; it was wonderfully uneven and fresh. "What do you think?" she asked her Counterpart.
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Ivy-too hummed, unsure of the unevenness of it. She did however like the way Ivy looked with it short. "Not too bad. Looks good short," she replied honestly. "Once you go back, I'll look the same by the time you're fully awake over there. I think it'll be a nice change."
Ivy nodded with a smile. "Cool beans." A pause. "Seeing as this is an acceptable start, should we head out to find a more complete cover?"
(Bump?)
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The Reflection frowned. "You didn't get a good look around at this place when I carried you. Going through the mirror must take a lot out of you. However, this is fairly complete around here. Where you live there isn't a war constantly being waged," Ivy-too reminded. She smiled lightly at her counterpart after a moment. "We'll still move out of here soon enough though."
Ivy pursed her lips, nodding. "Okay then. I'm not sure what to do now then. Sorry, I feel useless." She decided to be honest. If anyone was going to understand her feelings, it would be herself, so why not? "I just don't know what to make of all this."
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Ivy-too gave her a small smile. "It's alright. I really don't either." The Reflection glanced around for any sign of a mirror in their current situation. A reflective shimmer. An odd shape covered by another tarp. However, they were unlucky at that current moment. They really were at a dead end. Sighing, the girl sat on the cold ground only to flop back to stare at the ceiling.
“So…” Ivy started quietly. “How do you work? As in… were you alive as a baby like me?”
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The Reflection hummed. "I mean… I think so? As you grew up, you had to look into the mirror dozens of times, right? That was me too, though my memory isn't great."
"But… How did you take care of yourself as a baby? And what do you eat? What do you do when I'm not around? How do you always find a mirror wherever you are to be with me?"
Thousands of questions were running through her mind, stampeding on every other thought; she only let a fraction out.
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It was fortunate that she was already on the ground, otherwise the Reflection would have been knocked over from all of Ivy's questions. "Okay, okay, uh… First one, my parents obviously are your parents' Reflections. Yours cared for you, mine cared for me. Good?" Ivy-too didn't wait for a response. "Second, I eat food like you, silly. Now third… again, a war and all that, I have to move locations almost immediately once you leave to swap locations. That kinda answers the fourth thing as well. Thanks to lots of running and you being in shape for the most part, I'm fairly quick."
There was also the small mirror she had, but that would raise even more questions.
(by small I mean like pocket size)
Ivy paused, letting all the information sink in. "Okay, I see. How does society work? Do you talk to other Reflections, or watch TV, or buy things? Is this place an exact replica of Earth? Do you know all of my friends' Reflections? Where are my parents' Reflections?"
(where are you thinking we go from here?)
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(Well I figure they get up and leave after another response or 2 and then bump into someone. They realize what is going on despite the two of them lying and boom everyone finds out I guess? I really don't know)
(don't know if you saw but I'm away up until Sunday for a school trip, I'll see you in a week!)
(as for plot~ I'll brainstorm some ideas as I'm away, and hopefully I'll be back with some options)
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(Alright! Thanks for telling me!)
(I was thinking maybe that too long an interaction between Reflection and Counterpart causes some sort of weird disturbance, like maybe one of them is affected in some way, or the Rogues are affected, or the mirror dimension itself? What if one by one, all mirrors are breaking? Idk, something along those lines)
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(oMG YeS)
(Agh sorry school :'( )
(So which one of those? The Rogues, the mirrors, the actual dimension? Or should we just go for it and see where it goes with that idea in mind?)
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(Idk man lol, I like them all hhh)