Mirror Boy

This is the first of The Young Boy's [link] guides in my new illustrated story '17 Days'. Mirror Boy is a close friend of The Soldier [link] in the story, which will be put in detail once i begin writing the pages to go with the illustrations.

Note - I want to give The Young Boy a name, so suggestions are welcome.

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Mirror Boy's story.

The Young Boy meets Mirror Boy in his wanderings through the new strange world. After walking down the never ending path, past withering trees and hanging death notes, he comes to a part of the landscape that is completely covered in ice - everything has a blueish tinge and is bitterly cold.

Standing directly in the centre of the never ending path is Mirror Boy, an umbrella held gracefully in one hand. This is the first person The Young Boy has seen in his travels but he is wary. The stranger has an odd face, a smile that is far too wide.

The Young Boy notices that dozens of broken mirrors hang around them on the crumbling walls. They look as though blood has touched them. He feels even more afraid and dares not speak to this grinning stanger of who he knows nothing.

In the end it is Mirror Boy who takes the first steps of friendship. He extends a hand, shakes it rather energetically and begins to explain why The Young Boy is here, in this winter wonderland.

It turns out that The Young Boy has a long journey ahead of him, a journey of 17 days hard toil to reach his 'destination of peace' and along the way 4 guides will help him, instruct him and tell him all their stories.

'The object', says Mirror Boy, 'is to teach you the value of living so you can carry on here so much better than you did before in that sad little life you lived on Earth.'

As they set off in search of the next guide in their travels Mirror Boy tells The Young Boy of his sad sorry tale.

In life he had been no more than a typical teenager, scared of the future and disgusted by their looks. He was bullied due to his flamboyancy, his pretty girlish features. He was told by near enough everyone that he would amount to very little. Many a lunch time in that dreaded highschool called Hell, he'd hide in the bathrooms and pray for a face as manly and strong as Superman. He wanted love and acceptance and he wanted a body to be proud of. He hated his mirror, and it became the end of him eventually.

Maddened by his own appearance and terribly low social status, Mirror Boy killed himself just to be free again.

When he awoke from the hospital stay, the trip to a graveyard and back he found himself here. He was told by a guide not unlike himself that he must pay for the life he'd thrown away. It was his duty now to tell others of his foolishness and to warn them never ever to do the same.

And that a foolish smile would ever be worn upon his tired face.
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Feedback appreciated/ sorry for the bad camera picture, i have no scanner atm.