"I tried to find out," Maximilian said, pulling her a little closer as they sat by the window. "But there are no records of those kingdoms by those names."
Catherine raised her brows, the answer only deepening her curiosity. "So… a parallel universe?" she asked, almost casually, though her mind was already moving ahead of the question.
It didn't feel impossible.
She had seen artifacts—objects that carried echoes of that time, things too similar to be a coincidence. And then there was the bracelet. Proof, in its own quiet, unsettling way, that something beyond ordinary logic existed.
Her gaze dropped briefly to her wrist.
She still didn't know how much power it held still or how much distance it was now allowing between her and Maximilian.
Strangely… she didn't feel the need to know either.
"Do you think there's another you and another me somewhere right now?" she continued, turning back to him. "In another version of this world? Or did we… cross over somehow?"
