When Rose heard the voice of this mysterious woman, she found it familiar, but not that much recognisable.
Rose turned around as soon as she heard the voice, and before her was a middle-aged woman with short dark purple hair, shorter than Rose's.
This woman wore a white uniform with a golden star and with gold incorporations in the middle of the white, this could only mean that she was a Nova.
Rose already knew that here somewhere was someone from the Nova tank but she didn't think she would meet this person so soon and that way.
- Yes, commander Elektra White! Understood!- said the man at the counter as soon as he saw Elektra, he had to show all possible respect and could not do anything against a direct order of a Nova, even if this breaks the norms and/or laws.
- Thank you, I'm also going in, I needed some documents, no problem, right? - said Elektra, with a polite and suffocated friendly tone.
- O-Of course not!
- Very well, thank you.
For the first time when Rose heard Elektra she didn't notice anything strange, but meanwhile when she spoke more with Rose, she noticed a slight Asian accent mixed with Australian, present in Elektra's speech.
As soon as the employee finished talking to them, they went to the entrance and when they entered, Elektra asked:
- So, what information did Mrs. Rose Hadley need to come directly to the headquarters of SIAD?-said Elektra with a big and friendly smile.
- Do we know each other? In any case, I need to confirm some information for my investigation.- said Rose a little indignant at how she recognised her knowing that not even Rose knew who she was, other than her rank that was seen from afar because of her uniform.
- You may not know me but I know you very well, are you famous? - replied Elektra, with a radiant smile.
-You may not know this, but I'm Nova assigned to lead this department in the solar system, I usually don't go to the headquarters but I had to come, check some things, they were saying that there are some malfunctions. - added White.
- Well, as your next destination you can go to the weapons and defense room, when I approached the headquarters I was attacked - said Rose with the face of someone who is trying at all costs to hide her dissatisfaction.
- Oh, I'll do everything I can to improve the situation, I apologise for what happened. - said Elektra with the same smile as always.
After these words, there was silence while these two women moved through the physical archive, at a given moment they separated.
Rose walked from corridor to corridor without really knowing where she needed to go, she forgot to ask where the section that was needed for her was because of the appearance of Elektra.
After a few minutes of walking without any destination, she noticed the hologram where it was written "Ancient scientists and first scientists of the IIPB", this section was something promising because Cressida Sterne, apparently was one of the two, so Rose decided to take a look at it.
This file was organised by sections that then wrap organised in alphabetical order, so Hadley first went looking for the letter C to see if there was something about Cressida and then, if there was nothing, she would go to the letter S, because they could have written Sterne Cressida.
For the happiness of the Red Star, was the scientist's folder in section C.
Rose opened the folder and instead of finding several papers she came across only one paper on which it was written.
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According to the voting act No. 685asu766 of the year 3763 all information about CRESSIDA STERNE is under extreme secrecy and the only ones who have the right to have access to this information are IIPB employees with the rank at least New-superior. For these reasons, all documents with reference to CRESSIDA STERNE or some work of the well-called, must be collected and stored in the file of the supreme court on the planet Ranrik, in quadrant 567₴6.
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After reading the paper, Rose was not at all surprised by the result, but what was strange was that the vote for secrecy took place in the year 3763 while, according to the 'manuscript' Cressida would have around 16 between 1917 and 2148, which meant that what Cressida would have done was either recent or was a slow bomb that exploded that year.
While oficer Hadley was leaving, a little depressed because of the situation, she had an idea, the idea was to go see Cressida Brown's file, to see if everything was fine there and was in accordance with what they provided her.
Rose did not take long to find the necessary corridor, she went looking for the letter C, when she found it she began her search, among all, unlike the other time, she did not find the folder of Cressida Brown, how many times she did not look, so she decided to move to the letter B and the result was repeated.
She was not liking the situation, the two corridors were too far from each other to see if anyone took her briefcase, but who would need the information of a scientist, most likely already dead?
That's why Rose went to the counter to ask about her folder, but the man looked around and then refused to answer saying that she was already lucky to go there, he also went to add that nothing can be taken out, because it was against one of the articles of the IIPB internal regulations that was established by the Novas.
With this information, Rose had nothing to do than just leave, she confirmed a dozen times if she was not just a little blind but nothing helped to find something that was not even there.
The Red Star headed to the Jets parking lot to return to its final destination, which was Cressida Brown's dwelling place.
When Rose went out of the headquarters there was no attack of any, she assumed that Elektra solved the problem that this had.
Rose arrived at the place and did not notice anything strange, special or suspicious. When Rose set one foot on the building she heard some noises, as if someone was running away.
She did not care because this neighbourhood was not the best, it could be some husband who cheated on his wife running away from the well said before she did it to justice.
The officer entered the building and went up to the second floor, it was on this floor that the scientist's apartment was.
Rose did not need to use her device to open doors by force, something strange because the doors closed, as soon as someone leaves the house, there may be a three minute break but this is rare, it means that someone was either at home.
Rose entered the apartment and began recording everything she could see, everything seemed normal, even more normal than it was before, Rose also checked with the images she took that everything was in the same place except for the manuscript and the statue of the platypus.
Rose remembered the strange noise she heard. "Is anyone here looking for something?"
That was what Rose was thinking at the time, because for her this was the only thing that made sense.
Now the story with this scientist has become even more confusing because apparently there is someone else looking for her and this someone who knew that she would have to have something in her house.
Did this person know about the manuscript?