Chapter 3

Sasha and Jim were laughing. Nathan’s reflection was laughing as he pulled with impossible strength until Nathan’s entire arm was through to the other side.

Then Nathan heard it.

May the road always rise to meet you…

The lullaby. The one Nathan had known so well in his youth, from his mother’s sweet voice, and that Sasha knew, too. But it wasn’t one voice or the other that Nathan heard. The song filled the air around him in both of their voices, his mother’s and Sasha’s, and it was almost deafening, surrounding him as he was pulled further and further inside the mirror. Nathan didn’t understand if the song was a warning or the promise of hope, but he clung to it and listened, closed his eyes andlistened, even as he felt himself drawn into the bitter cold of the other side.