章 96: 96. Is she your fate?

"I just don't know where I put it. Did you by chance see it? It has a silver chain, with a malachite pendant. The pendant is like a cross, but it's not a cross." Reuel started describing.

"Almost like a multiplication sign, but it's not that either. It has a red stone in the center... Did you see it Barry?" His face cringed with worry. Thick lines had formed in his head as his fingers ran through his hair tiredly and frustratingly. 

He knew he had it with him, but... 

"I was standing right here—" he starts demonstrating, trying to trace back his steps maybe he would remember where he left it. 

"I held the box in this hand and the necklace in this one." He stood in front of the fire place with both his hands in front of him. 

"Then the fire lit up, the box and the necklace fell out of my hand, and then I was pulled into the fireplace. When I woke up, I found myself in that place." He stares deeply at the fireplace.