THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
In one, she was a desiccated corpse; in another, she was a weeping ghost trapped in a cage of silver wire.
Vasili drifted closer, his movements disjointed, rhythmic, like a funeral march. "Look at them, prime variant. Look at the inevitable conclusion of your design. Whether you kill or be killed, you are always”always”our property."
The mirrors began to bleed. Thick, black tar dripped from the glass, coating the room in a suffocating, tarry darkness. The reflections began to move of their own accord, reaching out from the silvered surface to claw at her face, their fingers cold as tombstone granite.