The Uber driver says nothing as you drive through traffic.  From your view, he cuts very close to a few cars and could have hit one person in the street, but you get there without issue.  The music playing in the car is instrumental and uses a sitar.

As you drive, the buildings go from 3-4 story, to 10 story and then finally to huge buildings (30 stories plus) of glass/steel or brick/stone.  Upon pulling up to a building, the man says nothing, just looks at you in the rear view mirror.  The building...huge...stone....  Their are large numbers carved into the building directly above a door.  The match the numbers that Stephanie gave you.  There are various cars coming and going.  The front door of the building has people going in and out the revolving glass doors.

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Enter our players....

As he did not actually hit someone, Zahrah just took it for a wild, enjoyable ride. And the music added to the effect. Radios were such new things, it was a surprise to know he had one here of such quality, even if she could not see where he kept it.

This all cheered her up, and her annoyance from Stephanie's insult was nearly gone by the time she arrived. She stepped out of the vehicle and walked to the building carrying the folder, not thanking the driver since there was no reason to do so. He was just another servant doing what he had been tasked to do, no more or less.

The revolving doors were easily navigated, although novel enough to take for a few revolutions just for the experience.

After that, she entered the building, and walked up to the closest woman, and asked, "Are you Rei Rousseau? If so, I have a folder for you." Not knowing what Rei looked like, she was going to go from woman to woman until someone finally said yes, or she was directed elsewhere.


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After a wonderful lunch with the new Music Director, Rei and Hiromi split off from Cathrin who still had paperwork to finish. As they walk through the lobby, Rei hears her name.

Looking to the woman she says, "I'm Rei Rousseau. How may I help you?"

"You are not here to help me. I am here to present this to you." She handed the folder to Rei. The explanatory note had been placed inside the folder by Stephanie, but she had also said that she was going to let Rei know it was coming. So if that information had been delivered, Rei would likely already be expecting the packet.

Having completed her task, Zahrah continued, "I will be going now." And then she turned to depart.

Rei finds the woman's response odd but asks, "Excuse me. Who are you, what is this, who sent it, and why?"

Zahrah paused, then turned back to face Rei, but remained in place. She gave an rehearsed answer, "I am a graduate student in Asian Cultures assigned to Miss Stephanie. Please direct your questions to her or your guides."

Having fulfilled her obligation to her mistress, she then felt free to do as she wanted, without guilt. So she added, "That is a folder from Miss Stephanie. She has left a note inside to explain. Are your wishes met?"

Rei's cold read on this woman is definitely a strange one, but she knows who to ask for more information later.

With a nod she says, "Thank you. Au revoir."

“De rien. Adieu,” Zahrah replied, as she was not expecting to ever see Rei again. With her task completed, she would turn back around and depart.

Once outside, while walking away from the building, she almost imperceptibly became smaller as she walked, the better to find a place unseen so she could blink herself back to the museum, returning to the location her bottle resided.

As she watches the woman walk away, Rei says to herself, "No, au revoir."

Rei then takes out one of her business cards, writes her burner number on the back with a note of direct line, and hands it to Hiromi, "Sometime before they close, go to the Museum of Science and Industry and give this card to Dr. Stephanie Brown."

She then looks at the file, "I'm headed for my office to look this over. I'll see you tonight at home."

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Glorious!!!  And on to the next item....