Mirrors

I had a dream that I took no actual part in. Instead, I just observed. It started with a small boy playing alone in the woods. He stopped playing for a minute when something caught his eye. He took a few steps forwards, knelt down and began brushing dead leaves and twigs aside.

Beaneath the debris was a shard of an old broken mirror. He quickly became captivated by it, talking back and forth with something in the reflection that I couldn't see. When the conversation came to an end, he nodded, put the shard in his pocket and started heading home; seemingly obeying a command he'd received from the shard of mirror.

Upon returning home, the small boy headed to the bathroom while removing the shard of mirror from his pocket and continued the conversation. He placed the shard down in front of the bathroom mirror as requested and left.

Inside of that small shard of mirror was a dark entity that had become trapped many years before when the mirror was whole. When the mirror shattered it gave the dark entity a chance to be set free, it just had to wait for another unsuspecting victim. The dark entity broke free of it's own mirror when it was shattered and now it could infect the nearby bathroom mirror of it's own free will. It would trap the first person to look in the bathroom mirror, setting itself free.

Once trapped, the victim would remain stuck in the mirror slowly turning more and more bitter after countless years of being trapped. The only way to escape? If that mirror one day shatters and they can enter a new mirror to find another victim.