“Wasn’t what? Digital?” She laughs, and it’s not a nice sound. “You think you need computers to lie to a camera? These photographers knew. The stylists knew. They’d find the little signatures—a twisted reflection, a second shadow, a hand where no hand should be—and they’d leave them in. Like a signature. Or a warning.”
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“Don’t,” Eleanor says. “Don’t look at it until you’re outside. And when you get home, Lucy, look at your own reflection. Not in the phone—a real mirror. Count to ten. If you blink, count again. If she blinks when you don’t, call me.” “Wasn’t what