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A few hours later, the two of you are already suited up and waiting in the armory as a truck-trailer is driven up to you. You stare at it in awe; the trailer is probably about twenty-five feet tall and was designed specifically to transport the artifact. As the trailer stops right in front of you, a man sticks his head out of the truck and looks down at the two of you in an assessing way.

"Are you the two soldiers who have to play guard for tonight?" he asks the two of you.

"Yeah," Morgan says quickly. "Where do we sit?" she asks. The man points to the trailer as a door in the back opens up, allowing you access. "In there. I don't have space for two suits with me," he says, stating the obvious. The two of you nod and get into the trailer.

You hear a sharp intake of breath from Morgan and turn to look at her. "That's the artifact?" she asks. "Looks like a giant magic doughnut," she continues. You blink and turn back to look at the artifact again; now that she mentions it, you cannot unsee it.

Grumbling about the new mental image in your mind, you look for a place to make yourself comfortable as the trailer doors close behind you. According to your HUD, it will take the truck about an hour before you actually reach the train station. Best to just strap in and wait to see what happens.

The drive to the station is an uneventful one.

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