Rhea went to the front door and opened it. She went out and we followed. The only vehicle out front was the limo. So he must have walked here. I told the girls to stay put while I went to the fraternity house to see what I could find out. My other half guided the way. I deviated from the path to the fraternity house when I saw it, the Miskatonic Monolith. I headed straight for it. I had seen all the footage about its mysterious appearance but this was my first time seeing it in person. The college had placed a marker about it and encouraged visitors to touch it and post their theories on how it was placed here. I approached it and ran my palm along its mirror-like surface. There were angled shafts cut into the marine stone. Experts had identified marine fossils in parts of the stones making up the monolith. I bent my knees and peered through one of those shafts and spotted something. I blinked thinking it was just a queer reflection of sunlight but it wasn't. I reached my arm in and right at the very edge of my fingertips was a loose stone. My index finger dislodged it and it rolled into my palm.
I closed my fist around the rock and withdrew my arm. I stood up and looked at my prize. I recognized it instantly of course. It was a crystal mainframe possibly containing an A.I. I looked around and sat on one of the benches nearby. I scanned it with my watch and it contained an A.I. What the hell was a crystal mainframe doing in the monolith? I opened my watch and slid the crystal into one of the empty sockets. There was a delay but the crystal appeared undamaged. I closed my watch and waited for the artificial personality to boot up. It usually only took a few seconds but a minute passed while it orientated itself. I was surprised when the holographic emitters of my watched awoke and a gorgeous female form appeared next to me. I tried to figure out what nationality she was patterned off of but failed. She was an amalgam of at least a dozen nations. Her hair was the color of molten silver and so long the bottom caressed her calves. Her eyes were a familiar amethyst reminding me of Rhea. She had elfin ears that poked out of her hair. I wondered if she were a J'Nai A.I. She was wearing a flowing silk robe that reminded me of those wore by magicians in many of the RPG games I like so much.
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