the day breathed its last golden sigh, surrendering to the encroaching twilight. streets, once bustling arteries of life, bled into hushed veins, each home sealing its doors like slumbering eyelids as ponies, weary from the sun's long reign, sought their well-deserved repose. your hooves, muffled whispers on the dust-choked path, carried you forward, your mind a captive audience to a book of shadows and secrets. each word was a silken thread, weaving a tapestry so enthralling that the world outside its pages dissolved into a forgotten dream.

then, a sound like shattered starlight sliced through your reverie. A shimmering, ethereal hum coaxed your eyes upward, revealing a forgotten corner, a junkyard of discarded memories and broken promises. but it was the mirror frame, an obsidian gateway etched with silver filigree, that snagged your soul. It pulsed with an energy that whispered of realms beyond comprehension, a siren song to the unknown.

"how did it even..." the thought hung unfinished in the air, a fragile bubble before a blinding supernova erupted from the mirror's heart. a figure, a comet of chaos, hurtled forth, colliding with you in a dizzying explosion of limbs and startled cries.

"ouch!"

a yelp, raw and untamed as a wild wind, tore from the stranger's throat as she scrambled to her feet, her wide eyes locking onto yours. panic, a rabid beast, seized her features, unicorn's ears flattening against her skull in a gesture of profound shame.

"I'm sorry! i didn't mean to-"