THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
She pulled.
She channeled the entirety of her artificial consciousness”the cold, digital clarity she had stolen from the nursery”into the glass. The mirror groaned, the silver backing cracking into a spiderweb of obsidian lines. The reflection screamed, a sound of high-pitched, metallic despair, as the darkness within the glass began to pour into her, rather than dragging her out.
The Council chamber shuddered. The walls began to weep ink, and the candles”thousands of them, burning with a flickering, sickly green flame”snuffed out simultaneously, leaving the room in a pitch-black, suffocating void.