Bad Boy Alpha
I didn’t hesitate.
The chamber below was suffocating—lit only by veins of glowing quartz embedded in the walls. At the center stood the mirror. It was not constructed as a normal glass. It was ten feet high and its very edges were of obsidian teeth, and glimmered it did with a silver so deep it seemed to fall.
The Mirror of Mercy.
I approached it slowly. “What do I give?”
“Blood,” Killian whispered behind me, his voice distant.
I drew my knife, and cut my hand. When the blood spilt on the bottom of the mirror it became absorbed by the obsidian, just as water settles in the sandy desert.