After reading the note, Shard blinked and muttered:
"What a bunch of flashy stuff."
Then he grasped the silver cube:
"Collecting stories to open it and get the so-called gift... the invisible abandoned church on Cherry Leaf Avenue."
The cube, not yet warmed by the temperature of Shard's palm, immediately began to heat up. Shard keenly sensed a textured pattern emerging on one face of the cube. Opening his palm, he indeed saw one of the six faces covered in dense letters.
"Couldn't you just leave me a note?"
The letters were extremely small, making it difficult to discern complete sentences even as Shard leaned in for a closer look. Fortunately, "she" recited the sentences from the metal block as Shard rubbed them with his fingertips:
