Doubles, Bats and Fog

Three Muses Challenge is

'Victorian'

I had to make it a little spooky...

That whole era seems a bit creepy to me, 

I read a story about a young 

Victorian girl that was left home alone for an afternoon.

While walking in the garden, she happened to glance up at her house and thought 

she saw the curtain draw back from an upstairs bedroom..

Since she was certain she was alone, she figured it was merely 

the breeze blowing through an open window. 

As the day drew to a close. she too, decided to retire for the evening.

She went up to her bedroom and stopped in front of her mirror to pin back a stray curl..

The face staring back at her was her own, but the eyes were glazed and distant.. the lips curled

in a malevolent smile,

the chest did not rise and fall with breath, it was still.

By the time her family returned home, she was delirious with fever.

She recounted the events of the day, her eyes bright with feverish terror..

her last word was

"doppelgänger" 

While there isn't a doppelganger in the image above, this is the picture I have in my head

of what the young girl might have looked like.

Thanks for looking:)