Zoey pushed aside her mask, gazing at the glowing, crystal moon in the cave she had found herself drawn to. It's beautiful, soft gold radiance pulsed gently in the darkness of the cave. She glanced both ways, verifying that there was nothing waiting for her, then stepped to the artifact. Gently lifting it from it's pedestal, she instantly noticed how, in it's glow, her furred body began to take on a more human appearance. Gasping, she nearly dropped the golden crescent, but felt compelled to continue holding it, as if someone had clasped it to her hand as a gift. She turned it over, noticing the chain affixed to top. [i]An amulet... it feels a bit like illusion magic too.[/i] Testing it, she gently returned the artifact to it's pedestal. Sure enough, her purple hues returned eagerly. Slowly, she reached again for the amulet to similar effect, holding it to her face to better look at it. Other than it's clear, precise cuts and gentle glow, there seemed to be nothing special about it. In fact, even the glow faded as it lost it's charge, faintly pulsing one last time. Zoey frowned at it in thought, [i]It seems harmless enough, and can get me into towns when it isn't Halloween... But I still know nothing of it. An interesting puzzle, but nothing ever gets done without a spot of risk.[/i]

She held the object in her hand and concentrated, gathering her blue mana within herself to charge the crystal. Almost instantly, the amulet flashed blue, requiring next to nothing to charge. Instantly, the magic spread over her body, reverting her appearance to a human look. A look she hadn't had in... years, to say the least. She looked at her hands, trying to get over the fact that they looked like... [i]These are my hands. From... before. This look like me! But, not me... at the same time.[/i] She sighed and put the amulet in a pouch around her waist, seemingly enough to stop it's magic at the moment. After a quick look around the small cave, she returned to the mouth with it's crude, scratched art of a moon on the face that had drawn her into the cave in the first place. Pausing at that mouth, she gazed up at the sky, clear of clouds and obstructions and dark with the night.