Hey Guys! Sorry for not updating in MONTHS. I've made a quick decision that I will alternate between Wish's name being Aldous and Aldwen because they both have the general meaning I want (Aldous: Old, Noble) (Aldwen: Old friend)

Also! This was made using one of my own prompts, so that may be why it seems to be directly related to a prompt from the chapter before.

TW: Mild panicking but nothing too big I think

Roman stood in front of the mirror.

He took a quick breath and stepped into the mirror, entering a replica of his room outside of it.

"I wonder if Nico thinks we're weird. We didn't exactly make a confident introduction." Insecurity said, twisting his sash and running his hands through his hair nervously.

"Stop being anxious, that Anxiety's job" Pride said coldly, rubbing his arm where Insecurity must have been grabbing him tightly.

"Be nice." Chided Gullibility, flexing his wooden puppet fingers to make sure they still worked,

"Hello there." Roman said, nodding in greeting.

"Hello Roman! It's only been a week!"

"Actually, it's been more than a month." Roman corrected.

"Well, I suppose time passes slower here than outside." Gullibility said, shrugging, busy re-tying his boot now.

"Hey, when will you let us out, I think the other sides need to be shown who's boss" Pride said, glaring at Roman.

"No." Roman said firmly, crossing his arms.

"Come on!" Whinged Narcissism, his mirror eyes narrowing with annoyance.

"No. I only go through here because it's a quicker way to Morpheus' room." The creative side said, walking past the different manifestations of himself and through the other mirror.

Morpheus put down his phone and greeted Roman with a simple "Hey."

"Hey my dear insomniac" Roman greeted him back, shaking off the coldness of the mirror portal.

"We should have a better portal." Morpheus noted, noticing Roman shivering.

"Like a wardrobe? We could have Narnia and Coming out jokes when we use it." Roman said, snorting.

Aldous giggled, putting down his book and Roman momentarily remembered how Aldous was meant to be his replacement before he realised Aldous had become a new side.

Roman glitched, and he knew it.

"That doesn't look good," Aldous commented worriedly.

"I'm sure it's just a little blip, it happens to me sometimes as well." Morpheus casually commented, and then he suddenly glitched into his first form. The Light side Dream/Sleep. His eyes widened and he quickly glitched back into his Insomnia form.

"That's weird." Morpheus said, trying to disguise the shock in his voice.

Aldous furrowed his brow in thought.

"I'll go investigate."

"How-?"

"I dunno, but there's gotta be an explanation for you guys flickering like faulty light bulbs."

Roman and Morpheus both immediately glanced at the mirror, to see that they were indeed flickering like light bulbs. Roman was flickering from all his manifestations in the mirror world.

"Oh no. Oh no no no- I can't present myself as a glitching mess to Thomas and the others, what will they think of me?"

"Calm down Roman, we'll figure this out."

"Will we?!" He asked somewhat incredulously.

"Of course, just sit-"

"No, I have to stop this now."

"Roman, how are we supposed to stop it when we haven't figured out what it is?"

"You're right-"

"Now calm down dummy." Morpheus said, "Or I'll make you"

Roman plonked on the small sofa in Morpheus' room.

"I'm good, I'm good." He muttered, twisting his sash.

Morpheus then glitched like an old computer with a bad internet connection.

"Is it the mirror realm causing it?"

"Maybe. Or it could be the Imagination, since we used the Imagination to make the portal hallway thing in the first place."

Aldous got up.

"Where are you going?"

"To ask the other sides for books."

"What? They don't know you exist!" Roman said, sitting up from his slouch before glitching again, causing him to slump back on the sofa.

Aldous morphed out of his outfit so he wouldn't be mistaken for Roman. It was now a simple white collared shirt and black pants.

He slipped through the door and walked to have his first interaction with the other sides.