8) Mirrors

Mirrors

We all gasped as soon as we realized what this was- the room was brigh, sending out light from all possible angles. I stood there, tense, staring at my own reflection, who stared back at me at least a dozend times. Behind my reflection, the others appeared. Khaos stared at himself, then at me. Astoria looked very spooked and looked at herself, trying to figure out what exactly this was. "Those are..  mirrors.." Müsli finally spoke up first. I, and all my reflections, nod. "Okay," I say calmy" This seems to be a labyrinth full of mirrors. I lead the way. Stand in a line behind me, and bite into the hair of the tail in front of you." Khaos looked around, nodding "Please don't let go of the horse in front of you, we will not go back if we loose someone." Namir gasped in shock and stared at him, i jus sigh. "No need for your dramatic self now big guy!" Arctic joked. Khaos shot him a very cold glance, and then took one of his strands of way too long tail hair between his teefs. Arctic tried to snap at Astorias tail, but she swiftly overtook Namir and bit into Müsli's tail, who was behind me. "Are we ready?" I ask, looked at them all, while I see out of the corner of my eye them all in the reflections. All answered with a confident, but slightly muffled, yes. Just Namir only nodded, who looked very mad at the situation. Or maybe it was just Arctic, who munched on his already short tail strands. I slowly nod as well, and take the smallest and slowest step forward. Trying to figure out where was a mirror and where not, I stretch my neck and immedatly bonk on a mirror, giving myself a snoot boop in the mirror. Astoria from behind Müsli said "I think on the left is a way through!" I nod, turning left, and stepping further forward. Slowly I see Müsli, Astoria and the others following me around the corner. Khaos followed at last, and then we hear a rumbling sound, which leads everyone to gasp in horror. Khaos said, loud enough for everyone to hear it, "That was probably the door." And he seemed to be right, the light was now dimmed down, I turn my ears and slowly work my way forward. In the mirrors I saw Namir with pinned ears and tense body language very unhappy following Astoria. Khaos seemed the most chill in the situation, suprisingly together with Müsli. Müsli must have noticed my look through the mirrors, laughing a bit. "Are you wondering why I'm not freaking out?" He asked. I grin a bit, nodding "Yeah I was indeed a bit suprised." "So you guys are really doing smalltalk now?!" Arctic shot at us, but I decided to ignore him, fixating Müsli in the mirrors. "Tell me." I say. A bit of small talk never hurt anyone, and what else did we wanted to do, stuck in this labyrinth. I boop against a mirror again, turning over to find another way. "Well I am normally just in an indoor arena and there are a lot of mirrors.. I think they are really fascinating. I always wondered if that's like a parralel universe..." He answered me. I turn my head and look at him suprised.. and very judging, which promtly leads me to run into a mirror. Astoria laughed, as well as Namir. I sigh, ignoring both of them, trying to find a way, but that wasn't easy. "I think this is a dead end. You guys check if there is a opening somewhere" I say, and look at the others, who now started to feel left and right, most of them just booping against their own noses. Astoria and Müsli seemed to be quite enjoying themselves, doing funny faces, as well as Arctic who had started to lick the mirror, which granted him a short snap to his hind from Khaos. I roll my eyes, but then Namir exclaimed "I found it." "Wonderful," I answer, "Namir go first. Arctic and Khaos will follow behind you, and we will back up and follow behind Khaos. Just find a way Namir" I explain. "I'm not doing this shit" spit Namir, backing up into Arctic, who stumbled and backed up against Khaos. I roll my eyes, and Astoria backed up herself, going into the new path. Namir, Arctic and Khaos followed her, with Arctic still muttering things about Namir, which led him to get swished into the face with Namir's tail. Müsli followed behind Khaos, and I ended up as the last one. We all walk in silence for long minutes, following Astoria, who seemed to be very good at finding the actual ways through the labyrinth. After minutes and minutes, our surroundings slowly get brighter. "Did someone turn on the lights, or are we coming closer to the end?" Arctic asked, which Khaos answered with "I am quite sure, yes." I nod, seeing Astoria walk around another corner. Müsli yelled "I see the end!!" Namir seemed to beam with hope, walking faster, which resulted in me nearly having to trot to be able to follow up without losing the others. "It's a wonder we didn't lost anyone in here" Khaos sighed, and I had to agree. Astoria was the first to step out of the awful mirror labyrinth room, sighing with relief and looking around in this new room. One after another left the mirror room, me stepping over the door and down the few steps after it as the last one. Namir took a deep breath and shook the stress off of himself.