The Seventh Reflection

There's a Japanese legend about mirrors that face each other in the dark. They create an infinite

corridor where something watches from deep within the reflections. A woman in Osaka woke at 3 AM to

find her bedroom mirrors perfectly aligned. She saw her reflection repeated endlessly

into blackness. But in the seventh reflection, she wasn't alone. Something stood

behind that version of her, smiling with too many teeth. When she turned

around, her room was empty. She covered the mirrors immediately. But here's what

terrifies me most. She still hears breathing from behind the cloth every night,

getting closer with each reflection. The legend says once the corridor opens,