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Straker frowned at his two seconds-in-command. The pink paint on his car turned out to be water soluble. However, there was still the question of who delivered the statue to Foster's office and who had gifted Freeman with something not whiskey in his decanter. All three of the incidents were grouped in a four hour period in one day for which there were no records. Somehow, the person or persons involved had avoided all detection, including cameras.
"Any ideas, gentlemen?" Straker's tone was more than usually sarky.
"No," Alec admitted. "Either it's someone here, someone playing pranks, for whatever reason. Or …"
"There's no way someone could have toted the statue into my office without being seen, sir." Paul was taking the situation seriously, but was obviously also somewhat confused. "The question I have, is if they can get in to prank us, why stop there? What's the point?"
Straker frowned at his subordinate. Foster had a point. If the aliens had found a way to do this, why the things they'd done instead of doing real damage. "Good point. A demonstration?"
Alec 's eyes widened. "Someone testing a device? Demonstrating it to a … potential buyer?" None of them liked the sound of that.