For one moment Loki had felt his heart beating faster, for one moment he had sensed the hope and love return to him, for one moment he stared at her utter beauty and felt human again... just for one moment until he recognized what she was.... an ill...
Five days after the horrible date, Jane was sitting at home, eating a bowl of cornflakes and scrolled on some websites on her laptop, searching for information about the Nazca Lines. She didn't believe in the theory of cliché-aliens that came to earth to draw animals and symbols on the ground, but she wanted to know, what motivation the people had back then, to carve huge pictures like that in the ground and not even being able to see them themselves, since they didn't have airplanes or satellites back in the days. Maybe there had been visitors from other planets and the Nazca people wanted to stay in contact with them and didn't know another way? It was a strange theory, but who knew right?
When she was scrolling down the pages, she found a picture of something, which wasn't Nazca Lines, this photo showed something else. She clicked on the link and found a picture of a circle carved into the floor. It looked like something had imprinted it on the ground, it was perfectly shaped and didn't look handmade. The circle was decorated on the inside with lines, it looked like a labyrinth.
Jane took another spoon of her breakfast and read the article under it: "Friday, the tenth of february 2008: Curious signs found outside of New York in an industrial area in Jersey City. A joke? Or does someone wants to tell us something important?" She forgot to chew and almost choked, when she had swallowed whole cornflakes pieces. She tried to find out where this industrial area was, while she was coughing and almost spluttered half of the food on the keyboard. The signs had been found this last friday! It had been found five days ago, when she had been on the date! She knew, she should never let men get in the way of her work, she had missed this, because of something stupid as going out! When she finally was able to breath again she called Darcy.
"Jane! Finally you're calling! Did the date go so well that you haven't been able to - "
"Shut up Darce!" Jane said annoyed, she wasn't going to tell her about Dr. Mitchell now. "Call Erik for me please! Meet me in two hours in Jersey city in the industrial area! I think I found something interesting and get all the equipment!"
"Wait what?" Darcy wanted to ask her what this was all about, but didn't get the chance. Jane had already hung up the phone. She searched everything she thought she would need and put it in a bag, running out of the house, almost forgetting her keys.
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When she had arrived in the industrial area of Jersey City, she climbed over a barrier and rushed towards the place, where she thought it might be. She had found it after some minutes searching. The symbols were still visible, although not as well as on the photo anymore, due to the wind and other natural causes. She brushed over the carvings in the sand very carefully, being scared that she would ruin it even more. She took out a scientific equipment that looked like a big cellphone, only with different icons on; it showed numbers and circles with unreadable symbols. When Jane held it over the carvings, the device started blinking and beeping. The woman inhaled sharply. Was this real? Did this thing really work? She had never seen her equipment acting this strange. Just when she wanted to investigate it more, she heard a car driving nearby. She saw Erik's van riding onto the compound. She ran towards them, showing them the way.
