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[hr][b]Location:[/b] Relic's Car
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Mali listened to Relic's explanations and thought it over. She allowed the fanciful part of her brain to have free reign while doing this because this clearly wasn't a "normal" situation, so sticking with established ways of thinking probably wouldn't do her any good. The necklace itself didn't appear to be anything special. Beyond the price range of a kid in college or younger? Most certainly, but the fact that it was even publicly available spoke quite a bit about its real status.

Given that it is apparently the target of a citywide conspiracy, the fact that it was out in the open probably meant that it was [i]meant[/i] to be there. Perhaps as a way of having it trade hands in a completely discreet manner. Nobody bats an eye at somebody buying a necklace from a jewelry store. The pawns are positioned and everything remains in the shadows. If that was indeed the case, then Relic probably threw a wrench in that whole plan. But what was the plan for the necklace?

Again, it didn't appear to be anything special, but perhaps it was a key to something greater? Either literally or metaphorically, it could be the only way to access something of worth to a shadow organization. Mali said none of these musings to Relic. Right now it was total conjecture, and that wouldn't help anything.

[color=D5FF00]"So why are you carrying it around? You're just making yourself a giant target. You could do something like stick it in a box, tie that box to a cinderblock and dump it in the ocean. You'd know its general location, but it wouldn't be easily fetched by people actively out to get you."[/color] Mali decided not to bring up the other elephant in the room. She figured that she would rather figure it out for herself or ask at a better time than now. Priorities.