Children who want to be scared

shut themselves in a safe place inside their minds to taste danger and thrills as much as they want.

That's what created

People didn't have that sort of composure.

It's a pretty amazing world if they can't have fun without something like that.

Has the Outside really come to that?

However, there was no real setting but the thrill of the "Purple Mirror" they thought up.

In the modern world, where even irrational danger needs a reason

they added a tragic story,

Attached to a derivative work

the Purple Mirror became an "ideally realistic" children's tale.

the girl who painted the mirror purple.