Chapter 311 – Will you take it?
"Will you take it?" asked the cat, its silver fur glistening like water beneath the pale light of the blue, cold sun. Its slitted, frost-tinted eyes held an uncharacteristic seriousness as they stared deep into Meris's silver ones.
Meris couldn't answer immediately. Her mind was still struggling to make sense of the situation.
Absentmindedly, she looked around her, taking in the wide expanse of frost stretching as far as her eyes could perceive, with jagged ice houses erupting from the ground like a frozen forest, forming a strange beauty, a nest built for cats.
She was kneeling on the cold floor, in the middle of the city, she assumed, for on her right stood a colossal statue of a cat, ice pouring down from its stretched canine mouth before melting into water mere inches above the small silver-blue lake beneath it.
It was the same one she had seen back in the Glacier of the Moon's forbidden zone.
