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me for this, but I’m not going to wait either. I know it means a lot to you, and if it leaves this place they’re taking it to who knows where it will end up. It has to be now.”
    Plintos looked torn, but Draco already knew he was going to get his way when it came to this. He wanted the Artifact bad enough that he was going to let Draco go alone to retrieve it.
    “Alright,” he said finally. “Alright. But you need to be careful. This is the last one, so just get it and come straight back.”
    “Of course. What else would I do? Go sightseeing while I’m there? Earth isn’t like the other planets I’ve been to. I know enough to know that. Humans are an entirely different thing, no matter how much we look like them.”
    Plintos sniffed at that. “Some might say that they look like us .”
    “That’s beside the point. I’m not planning on staying long. It might take me a few days to figure out how to get the thing without them noticing and shooting me, but I’ll get it.”
    “I know you will,” Plintos replied. He dropped his eyes to his lap and then looked back up at him. “Draco, I...I’m sorry for yesterday. I wasn’t in my right mind, and I shouldn’t have said those things to you.”
    Draco smiled and shook his head. “It’s fine, Plintos. Consider it forgotten. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a trip to plan for.”
     
     

Chapter 2: The Discovery
     
    Stephanie Baker smiled at her reflection in the mirror and adjusted her glasses on her face. She smoothed down her blouse and checked the creases in her pants before pulling her ID card on its lanyard over her head. It marked her as one of the interns working at the Carperville Museum of Science and History, a job which she was all too pleased to have snagged.
    She was working on her Master’s degree in History, so the job was perfect for her, and she loved being one of those people who enjoyed getting up and going to work in the mornings.
    While classes were over for the summer, she found herself at the museum every day, helping to give tours as well as handling some of the administrative tasks. The pay wasn’t great by any stretch of the imagination, but she always told herself that the experience and the learning made it more than worth it.
    Stephanie was always excited to go to work, but that day she was more excited than usual. They’d found something.
    Well. Not her. She hadn’t found anything, since that was definitely not a part of her job description, but she would get to look at whatever it was the team who had done the actual digging had found.
    Those were the best kinds of days. When the researchers were trying to figure out what it was that the team had brought in. As part of her internship, they sometimes let her watch while they worked and allowed her to ask questions and get a close look at the find. Even though she had no idea what they’d brought in this time or where it had come from, she was hoping that this would be one of the times when she was allowed to observe.
    Satisfied with her clothes, she pulled her strawberry blonde hair up into a ponytail and grabbed her purse and keys, doing a quick check to make sure she had her phone and tablet and wallet before she was heading out the door.
    Steph was definitely a morning person, and she paused to inhale the cool, damp morning air, watching the last traces of morning mist linger around her car and the trees before the sun burned it off.
    Her morning routine was always the same. Get up, shower, get dressed, drive to the drive thru coffee shop a few blocks down from her house for coffee and a bagel sandwich and then head on to work. It took her exactly twenty-seven minutes to get breakfast and make it to work when there was no traffic, and she was always sipping the last dregs of her coffee and crumbling the plastic from her sandwich by the time she stepped out of her car and made the walk up to the museum. Both the cup and the wrapper went in the trashcan that stood at the