The Collar of the Two Skies Chapter 28

 Chapter 28

2 of the Two Skies was already glowing in the dark, pulsing in the mirror with a deep navy light. The two pieces had found their resonance.

Anemo opened the carrier with trembling fingers and lifted Remi out. Her Angora fur parted, revealing the spherical bead that sparkled like a small piece of solidified night. The man lifted the cat in his arms, pressing her paws against the glass of the showcase, right in front of the original artefact.

The match was instantaneous. The day register of one collar met the night register of the other. The air in the museum room suddenly became dense, electric, smelling of ozone and ancient incense. A blinding light, a mixture of solar turquoise and mystical navy, flooded the showcase, projecting onto the glass.

Remi closed her eyes, feeling the energy course through her small body. On the glass of the showcase, her reflection began to change. The outline of a white cat dissolved like an illusion, and in its place, the tall, elegant silhouette of the writer Remi under human form began to outline itself. She barely suppressed a sigh of relief. There was only one step left, a single second for the transformation to pass from reflection into reality...

Bip. Bip.

Anemo’s phone screen lit up in the background. The clock showed 00:00. The twenty-four hours of the Equinox were over.

Instantly, the mystical light in the room vanished like a blown bulb. The air became cold and inert again. The silhouette of a woman on the glass perished in a fraction of a second, and Remi fell back onto her paws on the wooden floor, letting out a heartbreaking, despairing mew. They were late by less than twenty seconds. The portal had closed, and she remained stuck in the body of a cat.