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text ❁ seven years is also how long it takes to complete a ph.d.

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Well, well. I suppose this means I can now officially join the "received a mysterious and vaguely threatening package in the mail with no prior warning" club.

I have to admit, though, that in comparison to some of the things I've heard of people receiving? A broken mirror (?) does strike me as a little underwhelming. It's pre-broken, even, which I believe exempts me from any curse of seven years of bad luck.

Quite frankly, all these shards of glass have got to be a safety hazard, and yet for some reason every time I go to throw the lot of it away, I end up second-guessing the impulse. Is that odd?

I don't know what else I could possibly do with this, mind, and yet even so I...just can't seem to bring myself to dispose of the thing.

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And at eight years old...

Was it perhaps the first time? That is to say, whatever circumstances led up to this...incident, after it occurred, the only deaths that followed were ones of..."bad people"?

I believe it was her first execution, yes, or the first time "Chloe" ever witnessed it. And I cannot say that the people were truly nice, even if they looked like it. The daughter that survived this is as much a killer as the other two girls.

They may not be surreal and full of monsters, but hallucinations like these are still quite disturbing, as I think you can imagine.

Frankly, I suspect they're more disturbing BECAUSE they're neither surreal nor full of monsters. Often the most frightening things are the ones that are most real and plausible, because it's not easy to dismiss them.

It probably depends on the hallucinations, but you may be right. Especially in my case. This is definitely much harder to dismiss, though I refuse to believe it is me.