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– And what does the Agency do? – asked Christine back in her office.
– Helping people is the most important thing the Hidden Agency does. Mark, are you ready to be our Employee? Christina, are you okay with being Mark’s partner?
– I agree! – Christina screamed.
– Wait, I said. – I don’t understand. What are my duties?
Bruno replied:
– You and Christina will be investigating undercover crimes and doing covert missions. Yeah, I forgot to clarify. Your assignments will be related to the planet Earth, because you are its native. There will be fewer missions on Mertsella, although this may not be necessary, accidents here occur once every hundred years, metaphorically speaking, and that is minor.
– More than a hundred years, I think I’ll never live, I said. Bruno was serious and added:
– All you have to say is «yes» or «no». There will be no further explanation. If any of you refuse, we will immediately send you to the same place where you took this satellite into your hands. What happened to you will not be remembered. You will not remember the shiny ball you found or the presence here. Other information is classified. When you become an employee, the assignments will come directly to you. I’m going to help you complete the first few secret assignments to support your endeavors, and I think you’ll manage quickly on your own. You and Christina will have to learn the wisdom of interplanetary politics.
– I don’t know, Bruno, – I was confused.
– You have to answer now, – Bruno said.
I would stay here forever, on this Mertsella, in this lovely house, but I wondered if I could do things I can’t even imagine.
– You’re a bore, Christina said. – Are you hesitating? Your gray life is over now. Now you’re going to have adventures and fantasy. Isn’t that an argument you need to make?
– You have time to think until tomorrow morning. When the sun rises, I will be ready to hear your answer, said Bruno, and then added. – You need to remember your motives.
«Remember your motives» are strange words. But I took them with the utmost understanding at the time, as if I had long wanted to remember what motives I had to start working for the Hidden Agency.
– Well, I’ll try, – I said to Bruno, feeling like he wants to sleep… Stop! What do you mean I feel him sleepy? I was amazed, I suddenly realized that I could feel what Bruno feels now.
– What’s the matter with me, Bruno? I suddenly feel like you’re sleepy.
– Really? – Bruno didn’t seem terribly surprised, which hit me even more.
I turned to Christina, hoping to find an understanding in her eyes, maybe she had the same. But I suddenly felt like she was starving. She’s so dizzy. She’s been malnourished, worried about her figure.
– Why starve? Sometimes you can eat something? – I asked her. And she was very surprised and emotional.
– Why would you think that? Why do you care? – Christina resented me.
I felt like I was crazy.
– So you don’t know what’s happening to me?
– You’re just rude, that’s what’s going on with you, implying that I’m fat, you…
– Stop! – interrupted by Bruno, – I’ll try to explain to you now, Mark… uh… So to speak, your talents began to manifest, which have slept for many years, since you learned to speak, you have forgotten them. It’s on Mertsella that all the magical talents bloom wild, though some don’t. However, you’ve been very talented since you’ve been here since the first few hours, and that’s what opened up. I thought tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, your… Anyway, congratulations, Mark! Expect a new awakening every day! Christina, you too.
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