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Chapter 8 by xmare xmare

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Turn to try to help them

"GIRLS!" You turn around, surprising yourself with the sternness in your own voice. "This is an emergency. These things are dangerous artefacts and someone could get, well," and you point to the girl impaled on the wall, "that! Show some respect!"

The impaled girl, Isabelle, pouts and her friend looks embarrassed. "Sorry."

"I'll get to you when I can get to you, but we have a lot of people to help!"

You turn towards the door but are surprised when you hear footsteps rush to you. A girl's hand touches your arm softly, "may I help? Is there something I can do?"

Surprised but appreciative, you turn to the girl who you just chastised. "Actually, yes. Can you help by picking up the rest of these beads for me? Use a plastic bag because it can't affect you through plastic."

Behind her you see an exceptionally good looking man in inexplicably dark shades for an indoor exhibit step over one of the security ropes and examine one of the wooden statues.

You rush over. "Excuse me! Sir! Please step away from the statue! Firstly it's priceless and secondly we don't know if it's going to do something. Step back please!"

He holds up an F.B.I. badge and says, "F.B.I.," before doing a double-take at you. "Rachel Enworth?"

Surprised to be confronted, you confirm it's you.

"We need to talk. I came here to speak to your colleague, Camille, but she doesn't seem to be in the mood to talk."

You look at him, confused. As he examines the statue, you turn your attention to it as well. You mentally kick yourself for not noticing it before. What had once been a wooden statue of a tall man was now replaced by a naked woman thrusting her breasts forward.

You gasp and cover your mouth when you see her face. The bountiful woman in the statue bears a precise resemblance to your missing colleague. "Is that her?"

"I don't know," he replies, thoughtfully. "It's one possibility."

"Why are you looking for her? Is she in some sort of trouble?"

He chuckles and looks up at her on the statue's step. "I'd say so, yes."

You roll your eyes. "I mean, are you suggesting she did this?"

"No. She, uh, made contact with me recently. We talked about something that concerned her about an artefact. As you can imagine, the government is concerned about all, let's call them, artefacts of abnormal nature."

You look up at him in surprise.

"This is not the first time something like this has happened, believe me." He fishes something flat out of his pocket and unfolds it.

You look even more surprised.

"Well, we've never had an incident at an exhibition of historical sexual artefacts. It's certainly going to make things more interesting. Anyway, when did you last see her?" He talks while he holds his tablet-like device up to the statue.

"This morning, upstairs in the lab."

"Witchcraft..." He rubs his chin. "Medieval, interesting. We're going to need to figure out what happened here. Can we examine your camera system?"

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