1997 Cinderella May 2026

Panic. She had to go. She had to get back before her overalls reappeared, before she was just the janitor again. She pulled away from Kael.

She was running home.

She arrived back at the server room as the clock struck 3:00 AM. The fiber-optic dress dissolved into a puff of static. The boots became sneakers. The headset became a tangled hair tie. She was Elara, the ghost, again. 1997 cinderella