Nineteen
Nothing in this glass case was going to win me the competition with Watt. Nor did it reveal any clues about what we were doing here. On that front, I was still drawing a blank.
"What exactly are you looking for?" Mika asked.
I jumped. Why was I so spooked by this woman? I knew she was standing just behind me and following along, and yet each time she spoke to me, I got a shiver down my spine. It wasn't completely unpleasant, but it also wasn't something I was in a rush to examine too closely for fear of what I might discover.
"Something," I muttered. It wasn't very helpful, for either her or me, but it was the truth. I had no idea what I needed to find.
A loud knocking sounded throughout the room, and without meaning to, I turned my attention in that direction to find a portl
