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[lifeskills]

This is the voice of doctor Victor Frankenstein. If you require me, I recommend other means of reaching me than these devices. You may leave a message at room 10-1. I will nevertheless try to keep apprised of communication by this method.

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thanks for making him feel at home, bro

[lifeskills]

<sub>[It's alive.

He misses the irony of thinking those particular words to himself in his shock at finding the mirror is becoming something other than just a mirror. A soft, fleshy something. It's alive, and it's right there.

Victor gasps, but Kol is too quick for him to snatch his hand back in time. Another hand grabs his, encasing it in a wet grip. He feels all the hair on his body rise in horror.

This is not okay.]</sub>

God!

<sub>[For one dizzying moment, he's afraid the other intends him harm, but the hold loosens, the hand retreats, and Victor is free to cradle his wrist where the blood hasn't reached, biting back a groan. A scare tactic, he surmises in the quiet that follows, a quiet permeated only by his panicked breathing. He looks down to see nothing but blood. Fresh blood, all over his hand.

Almost too afraid to take his eyes off the mirror now that he knows it's not an impermeable barrier between him and it--no, him--he staggers back, fighting for calm.

The mirror is just a mirror again. For how long, though? And what's next to come?

Taking up water and a rag, he cleans himself off, sneaking glances at the mirror until the water in the basin turns pink. Getting near its surface again is out of the question, obviously, but yet... He can do something that doesn't require him to find his voice and speak to his attacker (malevolent or merely mischievous?)

He searches for pen and paper, surprised his hands don't shake after a start like that. Then he slowly holds it up a few feet in front of the mirror where it's visible to anyone lurking behind it.]</sub>

Human blood?

its what im here for man

[sanguinius]

[ Whatever is behind the mirror seems to wait, watching, because the moment the Doctor holds up the message to him, the blood on the other side of the mirror is wiped away with something, only for a new message to be writ in the mostly clean space. ]

Did the witch find what he was looking for?

[ Whoever it is doesn't seem to intend on answering any questions until his own is answered. The mirror doesn't stay a mirror for very long though, enough time to allow Victor to read the question before once again, Kol's reaching through the mirror. This time, all the way out to his elbow reaches through - covered from the tips of his fingers to his elbow in blood.

His grasp isn't at Victor this time, it's at one of the unlit candles on the closest shelf to him. He manages to grab it, only for it to slip from his hand on the way back to the mirror. The way the limb pauses, makes it clear that that had not been the intended outcome...

So he withdraws again, adding another message below his question: ]

Help.

[ Not like you want that bloody candle anymore anyway, right? ]

bless you

[lifeskills]

<sub>[It's hair-raising to watch someone make contact with his mirror, but also somewhat hypnotic. A part of him would almost disbelieve it's happening, if not for the remembered feeling of that blood on his own hand.

To Victor's consternation, the same message is repeated, but the writer no longer seems content to leave it just at that. He watches the same hand reach through a second time, reaching for one of the items on his shelves. The act isn't as unsettling as the uncertainty over what the person wants. To scare him? To prove it can interact with this side?

He releases an audible breath at the four letters that appear under the others.

... Or is it lure him closer to the mirror again?

Absolutely not. If the entities on the other side use the glass to watch this one, Victor hopes his troublesome guest can see the way his brows flatten out with resolve not to let one scare dictate the course of this entire exchange.]</sub>

What's stopping you from getting it yourself?

_{[If they can see, perhaps they can also hear.]}