Galaxy Child Under a Mirror

She was quiet. Too quiet. He slid the knife up under her chin.
"Wake up, girl."
She didn't move.
"I said wake up, damn it!" He pulled the knife back and shook her shoulders violently.
Her frame moved limply, her head rolled to one side. Her thin gown had scrunched up on her torso, revealing too much of her scrawny legs, but she didn't fix it. "You wake up or I'll fix you up real good, you hear me, girl? I'll give ya some make up for that other eye! And that will just be for your breakfast."

*

The night before she had run out into the moonlight, collapsed on the grass and stared spitefully at the stars. So perfect. So bright and beautiful. So clear as diamonds in a mirror. Reflecting into infinity. The wind pretended to offer a cooling embrace but stopped at the trees. A mirror, she thought. That was it. She went back inside and looked at the ragged reflection looking back at her. She punched it in the face.

*

He was growing impatient. He took the knife back out and leaned over her body to press the flat end of the blade hard against her trachea.
"Rise and shine, you sunny little girl. I've got a surprise for you. Some of the guys think you're real pretty. They want to meet you. But you have to get up first. Unless you want me to let them in here and wake you up themselves." Still there was no response.
"What the fuck kind of drugs you on? Get up God dammit!"
He pulled one of her emaciated shoulders over to the edge of the bed. That arm, which had been tucked up under the pillow with the other, swung over to the side of the bed.
"Holy fuck."
There was a crimson bandage wrapped around her wrist, no it wasn't crimson, it was a white bandage. It had been a white bandage, strung loosely around her frail bones. He pulled out her other arm to find it in a similar state of disrepair. He pulled up the pillow. Soaked through the back, as was the mattress just beneath it. He scrambled to find a pulse. Hardly there. "Holy fuck." He stood frozen as the pulse grew quieter. Then backed away. Out of the room. And shut the door.