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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
- Blanche Dubois, (A Streetcar Nad Desire)
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"What do you think this is, Cortana?" I casually asked while inspecting the huge courier box with the help of the bat tool one of the drones had brought earlier.
"Whatever this is supposed to be, sir, it's not completely normal. Despite the various types of analyzing thods, we have been using to try and find out its contents, I couldn't find a single significant detail about it. All the test results save for the cara sensors failed even to perceive the box, much less find out any hidden details about it." The AI responded in a puzzled voice.
"And what about the person who delivered it? Any news about him yet?" I asked with curiosity. "After all, he was not an ordinary human being either. His evading my senses proved just how capable he was."
"Unfortunately, no sir. I have searched every digital database on the planet that I had access to. I haven't found even a single detail about the man that we saw earlier. Even the CCTV caras near the hotel failed to capture a single photo of the man trying to enter or exit the property."
Currently, I was in one of the hotel suites that I had just rented in order to find out the origins of the huge package that was delivered directly to my hotel room by a very shady-looking delivery guy.
Initially, I was quite skeptical and hesitant to accept the package. However, when the delivery person begged to sign for it, citing that both his job and life were at risk if he couldn't deliver it today and ntioning his hungry children back at ho, I was compelled to oblige.
The guy sounded so pathetic that I just couldn't say no to his pitiful face. He sounded like one of those guys who always worked as hard as he could to provide for his family but still had to face misfortune wherever they went for no reason at all.
Originally, I intended to interrogate him or perhaps even scan his mind to discover how he managed to bring that package to the eleventh floor of the hotel without notifying the security staff. However, after I signed the delivery receipt at his request, he just vanished as if by magic. A single lapse in my vigilance allowed him to slip away undetected, leaving no trace of his whereabouts or how he managed such a swift escape.
"Yep, he was definitely a supernatural being, possibly even connected to the Olympian pantheon in so way," I said as I eyed the unique na pasted on the outer cover of the package 'Hers Express'.
"Should I open it?" Cortana asked as two thin tal arms with pincers extended from the white drone floating in front of towards the boxed package.
"... Okay, do it. Although I would have liked to wait until we went back to the cave to conduct additional tests to find out more about the package, I doubt we would find anything new especially since we haven't found anything about it after doing so many tests already." I said, giving Cortana the go-ahead to unwrap the package.
Upon hearing my command, Cortana cautiously activated a thin laser concealed within her pincers to slice through the top layer of the courier box, her guns and blasters ready to engage should there be a trap. As the upper layer of the packaging slowly tore apart, a big silver-hued, luminescent piece of tal chunk enshrouded in a thin purple fabric was revealed, accompanied by a piece of paper resting atop it.
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