Midnight Stroll

"Goodnight, Shiro." The day soon passed, and with it came nightfall. Charlotte says another word I don't understand, but upon looking at her in the other bed, it appears that it means to sleep. Am I meant to sleep as well? But I just slept before... Regardless, I try and follow her lead, but my eyes are still darting all over the place under this mask, looking around at everything in the room.

All my life, life I've been living inside that darkness, so why would I want to go back there when I have so much that's in front of me now! Thinking that, I sit up from my bed before hopping off from the side. Already I can tell just how impactful sight really is. I still have the muscle memory of where everything is, but to finally be able to see, it makes it a lot less straining for me; although now I might be having the opposite effect with my senses overloading with how much is inside the room.

Now standing up, I take a look over myself once more as I'm still wearing what looks to be a white shirt of some kind. Charlotte called it "clothes that you sleep in" but I still don't understand why you need separate clothes for that. But almost just as white, was my skin...

Compared to Charlotte, who seems to have some color in her white skin, mine on the other hand is completely pale with no sign of anything on my skin, nor any sign of where the people have cut off my limbs. I decide to have a look under my shirt for at least some sort of change, and that was where I was met with two small areas on either side of my chest that seemed to take on a different color than the rest of my body. Curious, I move a hand towards them as I poke the small buds with my fingers. "Hnng!" When suddenly, what felt like an electric shock, immediately spikes up throughout my body. Just what was that just now? Why is something like this on my body? Not wanting to mess around with my body any further, I pull my shirt back in place before looking around the room some more, letting my body settle down.

Opening up some draws, I found several pieces of clothes. Are they Charlotte's? Thinking so, I close the draws before looking around some more but there doesn't seem to be much inside. That was when my eyes met the door from earlier. Knowing that the bath was there, I immediately go to open the door, just like how Charlotte taught me as the room opens up before my eyes.

Most of the things inside were white, and the same can be said about the bath. So this is what it looks like... I move deeper into the room looking around to see if there's anything else that's wonderful like the bath inside.

"Aah!" But as soon as I do so, I notice someone suddenly appear before me as I quickly retreat out of the room. That was when I accidentally bumped into yet another person. "S-sorry!"

"Hahh~ Shiro, what wrong?"

"Ch-Charlotte?"

"Yes. Now what's the problem?" She sounds incredibly tired right now... Did I wake her up? Did I mess up?!

"Come on, let's go back to bed."

"There's a- person in there..." I'm not sure if I'm saying things right, but I need to warn Charlotte of any danger. I don't want those people to hurt her.

"Really? Show me." With Charlotte now guiding me back inside, I approach the corner where I saw the person before stopping.

"There..." I point in the direction in a quiet voice in hope that only Charlotte can hear me. However-

"Pfft, hahahah~" She just laughs upon looking around the corner. Wanting to know what is going on, I quickly peek my head around the corner as well only to be met by the gazes of two people this time! Wait... One of the people there looks a lot like Charlotte!

"Shiro. This is a mirror. What you see is just a reflection. Yourself." She proceed to move her hand back and forth, and while I watch her, I also see that the person over there also looks to be doing the same, mimicking her perfectly. "Here, see?" She takes my arm while I was still staring at the two strangers, but that's when it finally clicked for me. As Charlotte held my hand, the person over there also grabbed hold of the other person's hand.

"This is- us?"

"Yes."

What a scary thing to have inside such a wonderful place that houses a bath... Wait, so then this is what the mask on my face looks like? With a newly found curiosity, I step in closer to the mirror as I look over myself once more. I'm a bit shorter than Charlotte, and just like my skin, my hair also seems to be white, stretching down past my hips, just as Charlotte mentioned before. The mask on my face seems to have quite a complicated design, and just like I thought, it only covers my eyes. I proceed to start inspecting myself in the mirror, finding myself captivated by the mirror as when I grab my hair, the reflection also does the same, when I turn to the side, it also does the same. Fascinating...

"Okay, I'm going back to bed. Have fun~"