Perhaps I can use a magic mirror to check on him.

He walked to the wall where a magic mirror hung.

"Any magic mirror could answer it, just by looking ahead."

Here was the view the magic mirror had given him.

She could use the magic mirror to call home, of course.

I could also use the magic mirror to call home, if there was time.

"I am a magic mirror who can answer any question put."

I had been holding the magic mirror in my hand.

She'd stopped looking into the magic mirror several months before.

But a magic mirror would use another type of light source.