Florid Postern? Bro, what?

"Florid Postern?" Kane stared at the absurdly ornate gate behind him in the mirror in shock.

In the Eternal Realm, death had never been the end. What allowed the dead to return was the Florid Postern within the mirror. No matter how miserably one had died, as long as the soul returned to the Florid Postern, it could always be reborn and revived.

Kane looked behind him in disbelief. If this Florid Postern had really appeared in Dumbledore's Office, never mind whether he could revive endlessly—this world would probably...

Why was it gone?

Kane frowned, looking at the utterly ordinary bookshelf behind him before turning back to the mirror. The marble pillars wrapped in shadows, and the black eyeball atop the gate staring at him—yes, this was the Florid Postern, the Florid Postern visible within the mirror.

"What's going on with this mirror?" Kane murmured.

"Well, in fact, no one in the Wizarding World has yet been able to explain how this mirror works. But what it can do has been studied quite thoroughly." Dumbledore had somehow returned to the headmaster's office and was watching Kane jump at the mirror from nearby.

"You came back without making a sound." Kane jumped again at Dumbledore's sudden appearance, then pointed at the mirror before him. "This thing? What's its deal?"

Dumbledore walked over and touched the mirror's surface. "The Mirror of Erised. It can reveal the desires or longings within your heart. If a perfect person looked into it, then it would be nothing more than an ordinary mirror."

"But if an ordinary person like me looked into it, I would make a complete fool of myself."

"The desires within my heart?" Kane raised his brows as he looked at the Florid Postern in the mirror. So what was it that he