I ran to where Molly and Julia were interviewed and, before anyone could stop me, I jumped at my girlfriend, kissing her. In that kiss, I poured all my love for her, my fear of ever loosing her and my hopes of rescuing her from her curse.
In front of the stunned journalists (and their camera), the human part of Molly slowly reverted to their natural apearence, while the animals parts stayed the same. At the same time, I could feal myself changing into an anthropomorphic sphinx similar to Molly, the part of me staying human (and my gender) staying unchanged. When we finally ended the kiss, the both of us finally opening our eyes, I saw that, while Molly's eyes stayed cat-like, they where back to their natural green.
Once she had recovered her breath, Molly thanked me for preventing her mind from being shalowed by her curse, even if it mean sharing said curse with her.
Then to everyone surprise, the mummified sphinx walked out of the expo. Once everyone was seeing it, said mummy started changing from a long dead an undoubtedly female sphinx to an alive an undoubtedly male Anubis.
“Sorry for the deception, mortals,” said lord Anubis, “But when I learned someone had succesfully used the sphinx curse on an innocent woman, I needed to do something. Alas, with my last follower long dead I couldn't do much… Forcing me to hide and hope for an opportunity to ‘dilute’ the curse.”
Lord Anubis was still walking, adding “So don't fear those two, they may be sphinxes in body and speak antic Egyptian perfectly, their minds are perfectly human ones!”. He looked healthy, but Molly and me could feel it was only an illusion, one that was rapidly draining him.
“Alas, this drained me, Lord Anpu, god of funerals and death and last surviving member of the Egyptian pantheon, better know in this day and age as ‘Anubis’, to the point of dying. But since the reappearance of sphinxes would have, sooner or latter caused peoples to believe in the Egyptian pantheon again, I need to design a successor. Thankfully, someone perfect for the task is among you tonight.” And abandoning all pretense to be healthy, Lord Anpu walked toward the next Anubis.