The 2 girls were unaware that the magical mirror was the source of the changes,but that its
'magical battery' had been nearly dead when the two girls foolishly drained it
completely with their demands.
And so,since the battery of the 5,ooo year old mirror was now lifeless,the mirror
returned to the natural state it would have had after 5,000 years.
First the wood frame dried up,blew away and crumbled to dust.
The reflective finely polished iron surface rusted and fell to pieces
and soon the mirror was little more than a lifeless heap of ashes on the
floor.
The girls were stuck as they were.
Realizing this.Lina clapped her hands to her head,shrieked her first
insane shriek,and hopped off into the night with a mixture of human wails,goatish bleats and
animalistic hissing and barks.
A passing freak show salesman noticed the bizarre creature,got out his huge
butterfly net and went stalking after Lina...