Miraculous Reflekta Novels & Stories

“That’s not how reflections work.” The figure tilted its head. Afnan’s breath caught. It hadn’t mirrored her movement. It had reacted. Independently. “No…” she whispered. The reflection took a step forward. Afnan instinctively stepped back again. The distance between them closed anyway. The air grew colder. “He said reflections weren’t copies…” Afnan murmured, her pulse pounding. The Keeper’s voice came calmly. “They are not.” The reflection’s eyes flickered. Silver, then red.

“You opened the gate.” Aria’s heart stuttered. “Who are you?” The reflection tilted her head. “I am what you refuse to see. I am every choice you regret, every darkness you buried.” Kael stepped forward, sword drawn. “You’re not real.” “Oh, I’m very real,” the reflection purred. “I am the part of her that survived every death. The piece Selene couldn’t destroy.” The mirror cracked, the sound slicing through the air. Light bled from the fracture lines like molten silver.

And I had no fucking idea how to reach them. Elara moved to the far wall and pulled out something wrapped in faded cloth. When she unwrapped it, I saw a mirror — warped at the edges, blackened in the corners. Old. Dangerous. “The Mirror of the Waking Realm.” she said, offering it like a spellbound curse. “It can show what a person believes is real. Not what is. Not what was. But what they believe now.” Sophia’s breath caught. “If she’s really rewritten their minds,” Elara went on, “then this might help us see what that looks like. But it comes with a cost.”

Ezra, choosing silence over words, listened intently, realizing she had no answers to the myriad of questions Scarlet presented. A sudden pause hung in the air, and Scarlet's gaze shifted from the plate to Ezra. "I am getting old," she confessed, her eyes distant. "I want you to come back and live with us. I don't want to hurt you, but you can't leave us like that." Scarlet's plea hung in the air, the vulnerability in her eyes revealing a loneliness that had settled in over the years.

My body ached, my feet blistered, but I didn’t lie down. I sat in the dark, staring out the window. Rain trickled down the glass, catching the faint orange glow of a streetlight outside. My reflection stared back at me—tired eyes, damp hair, and hollow cheeks. And behind that reflection, I saw hers. She had a perfect face. She assumed a confident stance. I pressed my palms flat against the table, my nails digging into the wood. Who was she? Why did she look exactly like me? And why did I feel like I had just witnessed something I shouldn’t have?

A single stone tablet—buried beneath the foundation of the flame circle—cracked open during the chaos. It didn’t break. It opened. Inside? But a mirror. Elara knelt, staring into it, and saw herself. Not as she was. But as she could have been— If she had accepted the first flame— If she had followed the Prophet’s voice in the Rift—If she had let go of everything she loved. The mirror shimmered, and her reflection smiled. The Mirror That Remembers. Elara stared into the ancient mirror beneath the flame chamber. It didn’t reflect the present. It showed possibilities. A her that had never hesitated. Never mourned. Never turned away from the flame.

Or rather—something that looked like her. The reflection stood there, its features identical to Lena’s. Same dark eyes, same determined set of the jaw. But its presence was all wrong. The air around it shimmered with the Rift’s energy, distorting like heat waves. And its eyes—Lena’s eyes—were not human. They were void. “You are unworthy,” the reflection said, its voice layered and fractured. Lena’s hands clenched into fists. “I don’t care what you think.” The reflection tilted its head, as if amused. “Then prove it.”

JELENA “Sit,” Mira says. “Uhm... okay,” I reply as I walk toward the sitting area where several bowls have been laid out on a small table. The room is still as silent as ever.The strange glow around us flickers softly, making everything look unreal that I hesitate before taking a seat. “Each bowl contains the qualities you lack as an individual,” Mira explains. “Before the judges, not even the smallest atom of weakness can be shown.” My eyes drift toward the bowls again, they all contain the same thing, a transparent liquid so clear that I can see my reflection in it.

As she turned the sink’s faucet on, stuck her hands under the water (dammit if he couldn’t hear the water trickling over her hands, against the porcelain), she froze, gazing into the mirror over the sink, entranced by something only she could see. The voices in Andrew’s head kept screaming and the water from the faucet kept trickling into the sink, though the video feed made no sound . . . *** For a moment Deyquan forgot they were watching recorded footage, tempted to yell at Lizzy Tillman: Get the fuck out! Run! Freaky-ass kid’s getting closer! Get your ass out of there, now..! The video flickered. Rippling with static. The mirror’s glass melted and formed liquid hands—the best Deyquan coul

There are phones everywhere and anyone can film me without my consent or knowledge at any time. It's amazing how my thoughts can distract me and wander as I stare in the mirror. The ghost staring back at me in the mirror is someone inwardly know anymore. I don't recognize myself. I only see pain, anger, and fear in the eyes of the woman in the mirror. She is angry. She isn't there, I want to be. Rosa knocks and knocks. I forgot she was there. I was so lost in thought that all noise was canceled, blocked out by fear.