“Miss, one of the companions we have stationed on Airis has reported that she saw one of the guests at the club bring in a relic. She said that it matches the description she was given in her training and that when she scanned it, the scan returned no signatures, just like it would if it were a relic. I know that we’ve never had any luck with this sort of reported sighting, but this one may be worth your attention,” says Deidra.

All the companions in my company have been trained to report anything they suspect could be a relic, but never have any of the reports been genuine cases.

“What makes you think that this report is any different than the rest?” I ask.

“The man carrying the suspected relic, his name is Gabriel Morones. His signature doesn’t align with the Gabriel Morones we have confirmed to be in possession of a relic, but he could always be using a fake signature. In any case, I just thought you should know,” she says.

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“Thank you, Deidra. That does sound promising. Have the girl’s comm sent over to me, I need to talk to her.”

“Of course.”

I open a direct comm link to the girl, her name is Alex. ‘This is Valerie, I want you to get close to the man with that relic, if not him then someone in his party. Does he have anyone else there with him? I also want you to put a locator on him, put a micro in one of his drinks, whatever you think will be easiest,’

‘I’m glad that my report got to you, I think this has real promise. He does have people with him, two other men. I’ll do what I can about the locator,’ she comms back.

‘We can’t very well take them in the club, we just finished a project here on Affinity, we will be mission ready in another 32 hours, until then try to find a way to go home with them, comp the charge,’ I comm.