ALL NOVEL Reflections
The reflection in the river shows a beautiful face.
Long, silky smooth black hair that reaches down to the firm thighs. Her cat ears are still there too, though I don't see the headband. Strange.
Even if this isn't a 4k HD river reflection to show every little detail, those eyes look mesmerizing. There's a cute pointy nose with freckles sprinkled across.
She has full lips, vivid red, standing against the pale porcelain skin.
I would have been the most popular in school with a face like this.
And there's more.
Those breasts aren't huge, they could be a C or a D, but after living my life with A's they sure seem prominent.
The clothing, a simple tunic with a short skirt that looks straight out of a fantasy novel, enhances the look.
It shows off the perfect hourglass shape with a narrow waist but wide hips, damn.
As someone who kept saying, I don't care about looks, I'm crazy jealous.
And in love too. My parents were right, even if Mom was only joking. I didn't care about boys, because I must be swinging this way.
The truth is, I didn't care about girls either, not until now.
Well, it's the twenty-first century, I can do what I want.
Okay, so what does the pebble want from me?
How long do I have to stare at Alexandra until she tells me what's up?
"I could have sworn you didn't hit your head, but you sure are slow." She notes, mocking me as she shows up in the reflection. She's still a pebble though.
"What do you mean? That's Alexandra, right? Is that you?" I raise an eyebrow, looking at the real thing before checking the smooth surface.
From the corner of my eyes, I can see that the face in the reflection copies my every movement, so strange.
"Reflection... Wait a second."
"To answer your question, yes, I'm Alexandra, and I tend to look like what you see in the river now. Except, as you can see, I made a mistake, and transported you into my body."
"W-what do you mean by transport? Where? How? And you said you saved me? What is going on?"
The questions become more urgent and the face in the river looks confused too.
"Look, you were falling off the stairs, you do remember that, right?"
She explains as if I'm two years old.
"It was a long staircase, so if you hit your head, you would have died."
"I do remember something like that. And then everything was white."
"Yes, that was my teleportation magic."
Even though magic sounds like bullshit, it's a floating pebble, so it's hard to say it's fake. Except it doesn't make sense.
"So you're saying, you are this Alexandra from the reflection, saw me fall, and teleported me here?"
"Yes, Kamikaze Girl, finally."
Why did she ask for my name if she'll call me that?
"Except, there is no mana in your stupid world, so I had to use other forms of energy for the transfer."
The way her pitch goes up tells me there's something more to this. She didn't tell me an important detail. Staring at the stone face for a few seconds makes her sigh, and continue.
"I may or may not have evaporated your real body, thinking I'd put you in a new one. But I mixed it up, so you're in my body now, and I'm in this golem."
"I'm in your body." I glance at the reflection, and it glances back at me. "Th-that's me?!"
"No, well, yes. For now." This is getting worse. And there was that other thing too.
"What do you mean you evaporated my real body?!"
"Look, teleportation takes a lot of energy." She floats backward, my face must be scary. No, her face. The one in the reflection. What?
"Couldn't you dampen the fall, rather than teleporting me to, where am I even?"
"No, as I said, your world doesn't have mana, so I could only cast a spell already prepared. It was the teleportation I wanted to use for my return trip. And so you're here now, in my world."
"Your world?! What world?" She's not making sense. So rather than letting me fall a few stairs, she evaporated my body to teleport me inside her body to, where?
"I don't know, your world doesn't have a specific name either. Worlds are worlds. It hasn't been long since I realized, there's more than one. They're similar, except this has magic and more diverse intelligent species."
It sounds less mundane than mine, but it's still hard to believe.
"My little sister, and my family. They think I'm dead?"
"No, nobody saw you disappear, don't worry." The pebble tells me, but it doesn't make me any calmer.
"Only a few minutes have passed since the transfer. And the stairs were empty. I got there a bit late, which reminds me, I should go before class starts."
"What? Can you go back?" If it's that easy to travel back and forth, there's no need to worry. She'll take me back and it will all be a strange dream.
I can't even say it's a nightmare if it puts me inside such a sexy body. I never would have thought I'd turn on from looking at my reflection, this is something new.
"Yes, I can return, but it's a bit more complicated." She notes, still floating further away. "I can take things from this world to there, but I can't bring anything back, other than the soul."
"Okay, so?"
"I built myself a body I can inhibit in that world and had the original wait for me here. I only transfer my soul between the two." This sounds a bit complicated but my brain is finally catching up.
"So you can't teleport me back in this body, because you'd have nothing to return to. And you destroyed my body over there." It sounds horrifying but at this point, I'm not even mad.