All well that ended well. This trip, too. I could be back into my routine of buying things for cheap and selling them for tons of money. My reputation attracted many new clients, and my store became too small for all the things on display in it. Expansion and renovation were in order, and together with JJ, we already began to plan it.
It's been a completely ordinary day of autumn, when Panda, who ran the counter today, called me out of my office. The world-changing events of demonic invasion and everything that happened after didn't change her one bit—she was as gloomy as ever when she spoke to me.
"Don't want to distract you, but there's a man who insists on talking with you. I thought he was another reporter, but he says he's after an item in your storage. A piece of jade disk, he said, but I checked the registry—we don't have anything with that description. I told him just so, but he kept insisting that it was there. And… there's something creepy about him."