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meant to be. He understood then that the reflected world had been always expecting him. He had spent too long trying to tear his way inside to reach it when all he’d needed to do was ask. To pray.
    When the angel stepped out of the mirror, it unfurled the wings over its eyes and Robert looked into them. They were the color of nightmares. From the torn mirror a hurricane wind blew the sound of William calling his name.
    “I’m coming home,” Robert answered as the angel stepped into the space created by Robert’s outstretched arms and wrapped him in its cold embrace. Robert sighed as the heavy weight of its wings enfolded him and they stepped back into the night full of black stars.
    In the darkness, spirit music began to play in a discordant tune, and all around the night was alive with the screams of the damned and the dead as they celebrated being alive. Robert found William and in the silent flash-bangs of sour candy lightning, they danced. The scabs and scales were rough on William’s cheek where it pressed against his, but Robert didn’t care.
    They dipped and twirled and laughed to the lunatic rhythm of the music. Robert kissed William and tasted bitter blood on his tongue. He pulled William closer and kissed him harder even as he wondered when the day would come that they would eat each other.
    All things in time, he supposed. All things in time.

 
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