[And because it's his dream, it's precisely the right answer. Though by all rights and common sense, there's no chance that pointing a finger and making a sound with your mouth should be able to do anything —
And yet when she does, all the criteria that apparently matter are satisfied. The person he's with points and shoots, and in his hand the mirror inexplicably shatters once again.
It prompts a scream from the woman in the bed — not out of anguish or pain, but seemingly out of abject frustration, and for a few seconds the world seems to distort and blur before snapping back into focus.
When it does, she's gone, and they're alone on the rooftop. But the moonlight overhead is no longer ominous and oppressive, and there's darkness visible in the penumbras of the rooftop's expanse that hadn't been there before.]
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And yet when she does, all the criteria that apparently matter are satisfied. The person he's with points and shoots, and in his hand the mirror inexplicably shatters once again.
It prompts a scream from the woman in the bed — not out of anguish or pain, but seemingly out of abject frustration, and for a few seconds the world seems to distort and blur before snapping back into focus.
When it does, she's gone, and they're alone on the rooftop. But the moonlight overhead is no longer ominous and oppressive, and there's darkness visible in the penumbras of the rooftop's expanse that hadn't been there before.]