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malurette ([personal profile] malurette) wrote in [community profile] glyfic2020-02-03 09:29 am

[en!fic] Discworld – Lilith – PG | Mirror mirror on the wall

Title: Mirror mirror on the wall
Author: [livejournal.com profile] ylg/[personal profile] malurette
Fandom: Discworld
Character: Lilith Weatherwax
Rating: PG / K+
Disclaimer: Terry Pratchett

Author’s note: ESL author with no beta-reader – if you spot any mistakes please do correct me.

Prompt: "Day Three: Reflection" for [community profile] halfamoon
Word count: 100

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Humans need stories; DEATH knows they need them to be human, but Lilith twists them--everything has to be perfect and moral and she forgets that humans are imperfect. Her mirror is a pretty picture: cropped into a frame and gilded. A mirror inverts what it reflects, not right and left as commonly thought, or right and wrong, but front and back, close and far, and it can easily be made to lie: and uneven surface, convex, concave, a speck, a flaw; deforms the reflection... yet Lilith believes her twisted, lying reflection to be true, truer than the reality outside.