Chapter Eight:

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Location: Streets of New York City

Date: June 26th


"Hey Anne." Pedro DeCalhasta's voice came on the speaker after only ten seconds of waiting for him to accept, "Can't wait to hear my awesome voice already?"

"No, I just need you because you're a living organism in the homo sapien group, and you have mild intelligence." Anne sighed,

"I am thankful for the compliment." Pedro said,

Anne ran her hands down her face, wondering why she even tried to put up with him, "Just get to Mary's Mirror Market, right now! We have a challenge you can complete and you haven't answered my question about Apollo yet!"

"Alright, be there in a few moments. You wouldn't mind if I bring another comrad along?"

"Hm, another person..." Anne looked back at the inscription on the mirror just to make sure her photographic memory wasn't failing her, it read: At least four people have to scan these mirrors at the same time to get the next hint.

At least, Anne mused, If Leo's person doesn't come, we can have a sure number of four, if Leo's person does come, then we will have five, which is possible because the instructions say 'at least'. However, I'm not sure if I can trust Pedro's judgement.

"Just go with it." Leo said, apparently, he had overheard Anne talking about another person, "Five people won't hurt."

"Okay, Leo." Anne turned on her radio wave connected with Pedro, "DeCalhasta?"

"Still here." Pedro answered,

Anne adjusted her glasses, "You're welcome to bring whomever you like."

"Alright." Pedro said, "I'm already almost there."

"Leo, now you request to talk with him." Anne told Leo, Leo nodded,

"Okay, just, you need to request talk with my suggested person too, she says she's coming to our direction but her friend invited her to another group. Though they may not need her so she can always join our group."

"Um, Leo, you can't change who you're going to talk to once you say 'request talk with who and who'."

"Oh no." Leo said, wincing, "We just have to hope for the best, then, I guess?"

Anne sighed again, leaning against one of the mirrors, "We just have to hope for the best." She looked up, "Isn't that what we've all been doing?" As she said this, everything that happened in the last week flashed through her mind: The bathroom, where they learned about E and VWR. Leo's room, where they found the ticket that entered them into this game. The airplane, where they were introduced to Artemis and found the note from A.D. The Velvet Windfall of Red, where Artemis had been murdered.

She was still confused, everything seemed a blur and mystery. Why William had reacted at Artemis's real name, why VWR was only visible from a red filter and painted on the wall. Why Apollo Delosi had only provided 50 glasses when he added 4 extra people.

"I'm here!" Pedro announced, "And I have brought my friend!" Pedro had designed his avatar to look exactly like himself in the real world. Except he was taller and Pedro made his hair black instead of dark brown.

"Meet Em, everyone." Pedro swept his arms behind him in a grand gesture,

A girl with white hair that transitioned to a lilac cololr, and large blue eyes stared at them, "Hi Leo." She said,

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