Well (he says, noticing he has a vampire-duck userpic) the amount by which the vampire was dimmer viewed directly would have to be the complement of the amount by which the background was dimmer viewed in a mirror. One or the other would have to be at least 50% dimmer than usual, which would surely stick out like a sore thumb?
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