Chapter 221

On their way home, Elara bought No.17 a new phone after he had dropped obvious hints. Conveniently located just outside the university town and a short distance from the phone store was a pet store. Elara noticed the pet store owner engaged in a heated conversation with a city patrol officer as they exited the phone store. Her casual glance landed on an odd cut in the glass of the storefront window. She looked away and got into the hover car with the new phone. The car drove onto the elevated highway and disappeared into the night. "Yes! I didn't lose anything else except that mixed dwarf rabbit!" The furious pet store owner showed the hole in the glass to the police. "My storefront window is much more expensive than the missing rabbit!" The policeman ran his fingers over the cut—there weren't even any rough edges. The incision was sharp and clean, as if it had been made by some kind of high-precision instrument to form an irregular quadrilateral. "Oh, and there's this." The ow