Shade, having broken into Yodel Palace in the form of a cat, carefully avoided the Church's ritual for detecting Spirit and Elements within the royal palace before leaping down from a side wall onto the street.
This was not Silver Cross Avenue, but St. Berkman Avenue, which connected to Disk Bridge spanning the Terrarell River. This street intersected Silver Cross Avenue and ran parallel to Council Street on the north side of Yodel Palace.
Because the Gas Street Lamps along the road were so bright, Shade did not immediately return to human form. Instead, he planned to find a dark alley and toss out the Crystal Shoes to return home. After all, home was very close from here. As for why he had not done so in Leisha's bedroom, it was because Shade was still angry with Leisha and Dorothy and did not want to take out her Crystal Shoes in front of her.
Besides, Angelina and so many maids had been there. He would have felt embarrassed doing that.
He heard her laughter by his ear. Shade knew what she was laughing about, but he did not care in the slightest. The cat stood beneath the wall and looked left and right. Once he was sure no carriages were passing, he prepared to trot across the road to the other side of the street.
The warm glow of the Gas Lamps stretched the silver cat's long black shadow across the street in the darkness of night, creating a rather frightening scene.
Once Shade entered a place beside the street opposite where the Gas Street Lamp's light could not reach, he immediately returned to his own form. He reached into his coat, intending to take out the Crystal Shoes, but then heard shouting and footsteps from the western end of