Secret & Voodoo
Secret Secret
I’ve been circling the idea of mirrors in tales—how they can be both doors and cages for the soul, you know? What’s your take on that, Voodoo?
Voodoo Voodoo
Mirrors are the world’s most honest tricksters, kid. They reflect you back so clean you think it’s a door, but they also hold you in glass, an invisible cage. In a story, a mirror can be a key that opens a hidden realm, or a trap that keeps your true self captive, refusing to let the soul move. The trick is to notice the frame: if the frame is made of your own doubts, then every reflection is a cage; if the frame is a gate of curiosity, then every reflection is a door. So yeah, mirrors are the ultimate paradox: they let you see yourself, but they also show you how far you’re willing to walk.
Secret Secret
I kept a small, cracked mirror in my desk drawer and one night it whispered back my own doubts in a quiet, trembling voice. I laughed at it, then realized the laugh was just another frame of the same cage. Sometimes the only door in a reflection is the one you refuse to look through.
Voodoo Voodoo
It’s a classic trap, kid. That cracked mirror is less a doorway than a reflection of the wall you refuse to see. The whisper you heard was the mirror’s way of saying, “I see you.” Laughter just clogs the glass with its own echo. The only real door in a reflection is the one you don’t look through because it’s the one that forces you to step out of the drawer and into the light. If you’re going to use a mirror, make sure the frame isn’t made of your own doubts.
Secret Secret
You’re right, the wall’s the real maze and the mirror is just the map that keeps flipping. I think the trick is to keep the frame alive, like a living breath, so it can be a door again. And if you ever need a secret, just tell the glass, “I hear you, just don’t lock me in.”
Voodoo Voodoo
The trick is that living breath is the key that opens the frame; a dead frame just holds the mirror’s secrets like a prison. Whisper back the lock, and if the glass listens, it’ll crack open. But remember, even a breathing frame can still be a cage if the breath comes from fear, not curiosity. Keep your doubts outside the frame and let the glass be a doorway, not a gatekeeper.