Snippet Saturdays - Splintered

Splintered by AG Howard

       He's right I remember. "Envision where you wish to go," I say, using his words from years before. The key is a wish granter, and will open the mirror to my desires. Letting the backpack fall to the floor, I dig out the sundial brochure and study it. When I look up again, it's the picture from the brochure staring back at me from the cracked reflection. I insert the key into the hole and turn.
       The glass becomes liquid and ripples, absorbing my hand. I jerk back, and the key falls against my chest, suspended on its chain. I hold my fingers up. They look the same as always...completely unaffected. They're not even wet.
       A crackling sound snaps my attention back to the mirror.The splintered glass begins to smooth, forming a watery window instead of a reflection. It's a portal that opens into the garden bright with sunlight and flowers where the statue sundial waits.
      "Want it with all your heart." The command swims in my head, so quiet it's an echo from my past. "Then step inside."