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What Lies Beneath
by
~Miriah~of~the~Wind~
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Chapter 14: Cam's Route
Cam suddenly got a feeling. It was a message from Mali. Mali wanted to give her something but what? She closed her eyes and placed out her hands. When Cam focused she could transport objects. Cam turned from an Earthling to an Irken and six objects formed in her hands. Then when the transportation was complete she changed into and Earthling once more and she opened her eyes. In Cam's hands lay paper, ink, copper oxide powder, the pills and the locket key. She put them in her pocket. Cam came into the kitchen. She focused and tried to pick up the vibes that came from certain objects that would be useful or handy or lifesaving even. Cam went to the sink and grabbed a rag. She then moved to drawer and picked up a candle. She look to her right and had a sense. Something was that was in a small box that hung on the wall. Cam opened it herself, in case someone was watching, and in it was a small pass key. One of the call bells rang. Cam jumped from the sound of something going off in silence. She looked at the call-bell. Her powers sensed that Mrs. McFarley wanted her tea. Cam looked behind her and there was the tea. A battle played in her mind. One was her Irken loyalty saying she had to complete any mission that the Tallest gave her. The other was her Irken pride that said that she, besides the Cosovians, was part of the greatest race ever and she would die before serving another race. Her powers kicked in again and she sensed that Tak was right above her in the laundry room. Cam walked over to the tea that rested on the dumb-waiter. She put the pills in the tea and put the locket key beside the cup on the saucer. Cam then pulled the lever right next to the dumb-waiter and it went up into the laundry room. She walked out of the kitchen and into the hallway. She walked up the stairs that led to the second floor. She went to Mr. McFarley's study. It was locked and it angered Cam. She was about to use her fire power and burn the door down when she realized that she had the pass key. She reached into her pocket and it un-locked the door. As Cam walked in her powers picked up an object. She sensed it was some kind of paper of important value. She walked over and opened the cabinet that she sensed vibes from. The paper was a Memorandum on how to use a satellite fax machine. Cam's senses picked up again and she walked over to the desk that was in the corner. On one side it was covered with fingerprints. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the copper-oxide powder put some dust on the finger prints and then blew on them. The powder stuck to the fingerprint's moisture and Cam then took some ink and carefully used her telekinesis to add just the right amounts of ink. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a sheet of paper. She placed it over the fingerprints and the ink stained the paper. Cam had an exact replica of the fingerprints. Sensing no more vibes Cam made her way to the attic where she found Mali waiting for her.
"Should we wait for Tak and MIMI or should we look in the attic?" Cam said.
"We can't go through the attic. It's locked." Mali replied.
"So? I could just burn it down. You know I have the fire-power to burn 9 developing countries."
"That's not the point, Cam. What are you going to tell the Earth-Stink when they see that half of the attic is blasted open? No, we'll wait for Tak and then we'll see whether we need to burn half of the fortress down or not." Mali suggested.
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