INSTANTLY AFTER THEY REACHED the threshold, together, they ran their sights inside the stockroom. And just a paced distance away from them, they saw the two another them: a formidable schoolgirl of the Xyrale High and a dutiful chief of police of Pulupandan. Apparently inside the purposeful reflector.

A complete carbon copy that when the other cocked his head to there, the another other would also follow his head to there.

A splitting image, very identical and could be mistaken as a Siamese twin. A reversed image of the one another only that, they were already separated by the two worlds to whom the other couldn't stand on its own: the reality and the mirror.

The scream that came in here had drawn their consciousness out of them, but nevertheless, they stepped the other side of the threshold.

Chief Police Jim Cauldron dropped his pistol and Selena Lambra dropped his wooden flute.

Although the atmosphere in here was heavy and was concealing something mysterious, except for the mirror, they found nothing. Literally.

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Instantly after he reached the back door of the sedan, the word AMBULANCE could no longer be intended to inform as its purpose. Except for the A and E, the rest of the letters flew to the air as the back door hinges oscillated itself from above.

Although it appeared to be, it was only the standard. To Police Officer Sander Acapulco, it seemed that the aftershock of the quake occurred to his Corazon. His heart trembled when he saw her.

Holding the lock on the inside, Nica Barenda appeared to be the one who opened the door in order for them to go outside.

The left hand was at the handle of the back door while her right was holding the tail end of the stretcher. Her face drew a surprised reaction.

"Sander," she let a word escaped her mouth without her consciousness.

From a jaw-dropping moment for seeing this girl in an unexpected scenario, he retrieved himself. Though his skin color was congenitally tan, and he loved it, something was adding to it. A chemical reaction of your body when you felt embarrassed and ashamed was known to as was blush.

"Nica," he replied with one-eighty degree opposite to how he approached the person at the driver seat of the vehicle.

"You're in there," she said.

"Yes, I am."

He stared at her. She stared at him. It took them a considerable amount of time before Nica confiscated the awkward scenario they were at, "No, I mean, you are exactly there."

Casting down his eyesight, it took him five seconds or six at most, to digest what she exactly meant of.

"I'm sorry," stepping aside to make way for a stretcher was coming toward at him, he made himself red as pepper.

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Thanks to the World Wide Web she had her demeanor for today.

Forget what happened recently and stepped into something else: be friendly.

The page she viewed online seemed to be credible. A lot of people accessed that virtual tabloid and almost ninety percent of them left the thumbs up rating.

That's why she was confident enough that it appeared to be nobody could swivel her head from here to there. If the case was persuasion, she would remain standing with her principle.

But that's not it, Hannah made herself turned to the back of her when life offered her the word 'Interaction'. Without knowing the terms and condition, unnoticed she grabbed it.

When a squeeze and a glide of a fingertip was made to her back, she turned around. There she found a girl, with an age that was hard to accurately guess-- maybe the same to her or maybe not-- wearing an earphone, appeared to be the one that made that action.

Although she avoided eye contact with Hannah, she managed to speak those: " Hi, hello there."

From a surprised countenance, she instantly got back to her demeanor for the day and astonishingly replied: "Hi."

"You're also late?" the girl asked Hannah as she unequipped her earphones. First to the left then to the right.

Although the way of how the girl said those words were blended with a shy tone, in the mind's eye of Hannah, she was felt intrigued. She thought nobody saw her, and that was nobody should. They were all looking at the other side when she entered the assembly, but how come she knew.

"How could you tell that?"

"Um. (when she realized the approach of her was wrong, immediately she established eye contact with Hannah) I'm sorry for hearing me wrong. What I mean is that, this is the line of the lateés. And I bet since I know you, you might be able to tell me, what will happen to Me, or if I'm right, Us."

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Now that the girl and her cat was reunited at long last, the problem remained to the remaining animals. In an auction where the bond was the medium to bid and the recognition was the key to tame, the animals waited as the progress of event continued.

Cathrina Ramsay couldn't believe what happened after the earthquake. It was not about the feeling when the surge subsided, neither the dents it left on the land, nor a tidal wave would be soon to announce. It was all about how mysteriously she and her cat was reunited when the quake ended.

"Thank goodness Estica, you did not just resurface, but you look as healthy as you could be," she said those as she tickled the black belly of her feline. The cat, on the other hand, drew an expression of anticipation although keeping it innocently.

Where everybody already gathered themselves at one piece after the earthquake, and thus no aftershocks could be felt after that, and also Cathrina recognized every name of every animal in there, their breeds, their owner and their respective addresses. A dog's encouraging bark made her turned back.

Stood with its legs, ears twitched in excitement and tongue's out and lolling. Chief Jim's Labrador Retriever gathered all the owners of the said animals.

Everyone drew a surprised reaction akin to winning a jackpot in a lottery. It made them run towards to their beloved wight.

Upon they made unto there, he messaged it. When she's about to touch it, she cuddled it. Now that they're rebounded each other, he patted its head. Nothing to be afraid of, she played with its tail.

To think that after the disaster this would happen, what a very rare kind of coincidence. They didn't matter to question how this one took place and moreover they treasure this moment: united once more.

When the wind wiped to the west, one moment after that, something happened. It happened very terribly.