The idea of them having one life and one life only sounds too good to be true. Why not double it so they have ten lives to our five?
[ this little ray of sunshine. perhaps her mirror really is her literal opposite — all about rainbows and puppies and positivity and excessively using exclamation points! it sounds a little too simple and idealistic for the mirrors to only have one chance at living. there's always a catch — one cora's none too keen to find out any time in the near future. ]
Sounds like a dream. Remind me not to ask you to tell me it. I bet the reality is bad enough.
[ having to see the goons every day — or, possibly, once a month. while cora's gone six years without seeing one familiar face, she knows, sometimes, if it's particularly rough, six years is a blessing in disguise. maybe adam deserves her unlucky luck with that. ]
If you ever want to get rid of the migraine. It's not like I know them.
Unless they die for real, getting rid of them will just piss them off.
[Adam's ray of sunshine is slightly more pragmatic. He doesn't have werewolf healing or Hale confidence to go around picking fights with every creature he meets.]
Yeah, it is. That's why you're better off not knowing.
[Cora sounds like she's offering a listening ear while not wanting to hear the whole whale of a tale, and Adam can't blame anyone for that. Once you know, you can't unknow. If he could scrub his mind of every damning thing he's learned about life, and family, and monsters, he would.]
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[ this little ray of sunshine. perhaps her mirror really is her literal opposite — all about rainbows and puppies and positivity and excessively using exclamation points! it sounds a little too simple and idealistic for the mirrors to only have one chance at living. there's always a catch — one cora's none too keen to find out any time in the near future. ]
Sounds like a dream. Remind me not to ask you to tell me it. I bet the reality is bad enough.
[ having to see the goons every day — or, possibly, once a month. while cora's gone six years without seeing one familiar face, she knows, sometimes, if it's particularly rough, six years is a blessing in disguise. maybe adam deserves her unlucky luck with that. ]
If you ever want to get rid of the migraine. It's not like I know them.
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[Adam's ray of sunshine is slightly more pragmatic. He doesn't have werewolf healing or Hale confidence to go around picking fights with every creature he meets.]
Yeah, it is. That's why you're better off not knowing.
[Cora sounds like she's offering a listening ear while not wanting to hear the whole whale of a tale, and Adam can't blame anyone for that. Once you know, you can't unknow. If he could scrub his mind of every damning thing he's learned about life, and family, and monsters, he would.]