The Hollow Box (Part-3)

Episode 3: “The Shadow Sigil”

That evening, in her bedroom at home, Lara sat and gazed at the unusual symbol. Two snakes curled around an hourglass. She'd never seen it before… yet there was something familiarly old about it. Ancient. Off.

She searched for "The Order of Nox" in all the search fields she could think of. Nothing. Not even in the dark web pages she sometimes read for entertainment.

Until her screen flickered — momentarily. A line of text appeared and vanished before she had time to take a screenshot.

The Order of Nox sees you.

She slammed the laptop closed.

Meanwhile, Lana had found something else.

She'd visit their mother's bedroom — the room they'd stayed away from since the funeral. The bed remained made. Her perfume was still in the air.

Yet it was the mirror that drew Lana's interest. It was bigger than she recalled, and a little distorted. When she reached out to touch it, the surface shimmered — barely, like water beneath glass.

Then she noticed fingerprints on the inside of the mirror. As if someone had been trapped behind it.

A whisper, so soft she could not be sure it was there, insinuated itself into her ear:

Lana. help me…

Lana recoiled, her heart racing. When she turned to flee, something shifted in the mirror.

Not her image.

Something taller. Thinner. Wearing a blue coat. The Order of Nox, Lara was to learn, was a hidden society within the hospital — old and cruel. They didn't heal people. They conducted experiments. And Lara's mother was too close to the truth.

"What would you do if your reflection didn’t move the way you did?"

Drop your theories below. The mirror might be watching… 👁️