shelves beg oved "you're tellg now, and i' gonna reber it" books beg opened "and don't tell you ca here lookg for books, dait!"and shut

but tenpou didn't answer after o utes of rando treasure huntg, he found the ruored relic supposedly sothg that one of the deon kg's spies stole fro heaven years ago

so uch for border security

fro beneath a silken cloth, he found a irror, and upon exposg its priste surface, he nearly stubled back fro shock the reflection he saas not of hiselfor it ay have beenor ight have not

his sa hair, only shorter his sa face, only kder his sa ears, only with cuffs his sa eyes, onlywith a onocle? his sa lips, but stead of the gri le of abject horror tenpou kneore, his reflection siplysiled

it followed his oventsjt like any obedient reflection, but the eyes he saere not obedient eyes

"oi, tenpou, what's tak so long?"

he didn't hear kenren's voice, only a little hu tickg the back of his d, sayg

"a pity isn't it? that this isn't hell" tenpou whispered the words to hiself

then behd his reflection, the irror, was a shadow a specter, hazy and shiftg tenpou gnced over his shoulder, but there was nothg he looked back at the irror defitelysothg so he approached the gssy surface, touched its ldness and looked deeper to his own strange eyes, but also to that shadohich seed to ove and take shape until his reflection wavered, lted, split like va pryg through the earth's cracks, only to et the ldest day of ter there were cteeth so sharp that he uld taste the blood they drew fro his tongue