Special Connection!

Had it ever existed at all?

It felt like it had simply vanished, carried away by the wind...

"In the end, he really chose this path?"

Gloria stood frozen, a sudden wave of sadness washing over her heart.

"Is this a final goodbye?" she thought, as the weight of her own emotions settled in.

Since she was a child, Gloria had always seen things others couldn't. Strange things. Unseen forces. She wasn't naive, though, she'd stopped believing in fairy tales and Santa Claus long ago.

Those childhood figures she had first seen, blurry and indistinct, she had assumed were just hallucinations. But the moment she focused on one, it came closer, and in a terrifying instant, it grabbed her wrist.

A cold, blue handprint appeared where its fingers had touched her, and everything in her world seemed to shatter. It was like a giant mirror cracking, and through the crack, an eye from another dimension stared right at her.