Fifteen-year-old Alexa woke up feeling terrible. Every part of her body was either numb or sore. Then there was the strange dream she had, or at least the feeling she had a strange dream; the details escape her at the moment.
Alexa put it out of her mind as she hobbled out of bed. She caught a glimpse of herself as she passed by the mirror on the way to her closet. What she saw in the mirror shocked her into alertness as she jerked back in front of it. The girl in the mirror was she, there was no doubt about that; but what else she saw in the mirror was a surprise and a half. She now had…