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tapped print and the
photos started whirring out of dad’s printer.
    How did
she do those things? I’ll never get technology.
    I went
to the living room, and raised a big photo of my face up to my
face. Yup, just like staring into the lake.
    Not big
enough. I downloaded an app for photo manipulation and zoomed a bit
the part with the smudge. Print.
    Are
those eyes? And that weird looking hole a mouth? It can’t be, can
it? Nah it’s just a glitch. What about the rest of the pictures?
Print. Print.
    What did
that guy call it again?

Chapter
6
     
    Agamemnon
looked into the vault of heaven and prayed saying, "I call Jove the
first and mightiest of all gods to witness, I call also Earth and
Sun and the Erinyes who dwell below and take vengeance on him who
shall swear falsely, that I have laid no hand upon the girl
Briseis, neither to take her to my bed nor otherwise, but that she
has remained in my tents inviolate.
    Then he
cut the boar's throat.
    I formed the words with my mouth in silence. The Erinyes who dwell below and take
vengeance . I closed the book of Iliad.
Heavy stuff.
    I played
with my lips for a while.
    I took
my new phone and went to the bathroom. After a touch up I started
taking selfies on the mirror, the light is excellent there, I’m
getting tons of likes.
    Click.
Nope, another pose.
    Click.
Nah.
    Click.
Click.
    Oh man,
it’s smudgy again. Zoom it and print, dad should really get this
feedback so they can fix it.
    Wait, is
that a face?
    Is
that…
    Is that
thing behind me?

Purple Time
     
    She reached
her hand to touch my face and I ducked instinctively. Smashing the
mirror behind me, the shards piercing my back I ran as fast as I
could out of the bathroom, running through thick time.
    On the hallway I could hear mom’s Turkish TV blasting at full
volume, the sounds distorted by my adrenaline and the Doppler
effect.
    I turned around for a second to see, the Erinyes was chasing
me like a feline predator, her movements slow but steady. She was
smiling, the kariola was smiling.
    The door smashed into splinters at my left and a rather big
piece pierced my cheek. I spat blood and ran to the
balcony.
    The sun was blinding and I was disoriented for a couple of
seconds too long. She came closer and opened her arms as if to
embrace me, her nails scratching the bookcase at her right with
impossibly bright mauve sparks, as if she was welding the books to
reality.
    The automatic sprinkler had watered the plants and I could
smell the lovely moist dirt and the fresh flowery
fragrance.
    “ What a lovely place to die,” I thought and realised I got
myself trapped in the balcony, no exit but down. No, not down, it
is too high. Next balcony, yeah, I can reach it.
    Mrs Toula would not be happy to see me crashing her place
uninvited but she’ll get over it.
    I started climbing the mid-wall that separates the balconies
from the neighbours and grabbed a hold of the aluminium thing and
stepped on a big potted plant and then I slipped and fell and hit
my head.

Chapter
7
     
    I woke up
from a splash of water on my face, shaking in my mother’s
arms.
    “ Oh darling what happened?” my mom asked as she was cradling
me and checking my temperature. She was still wearing her kitchen
apron and her hands smelled of cut vegetables.
    I looked
around groggily. “I’m not sure. When did I get here?” I propped
myself up, stabilised for a second and looked back at the bookcase.
Everything was fine. In its place, undisturbed.
    Huh.
    I could
have sworn I would wake up to a path of destruction.
    Mom was
checking into my eyes like doctors do, as if she knew what to do.
Which she didn’t. “Mahi, did you faint?” Her eyes opened with
realisation and she whispered, “Are you pregnant? If you are, it’s
OK, but you need to tell me.”
    I swiped
her hand away and stood up properly. “Ohi. No mom, I’m not
pregnant.”
    “ Are you sure?”
    “ Yes, I’m pretty sure.”
    She bit
her lip. “Did they teach you at school?