“We’ve been here for two weeks! If nothing happened in two weeks why do you think that something might happen tonight?” Itachi was unwilling to spend one more day in a supposedly hunted house.
“I can’t explain it, but I have a gut feeling that there’s something in this house” said Andromeda pleading for couple of more hours.
“You can’t publish your “gut feeling”, can you Mulder?” Itachi was pushing Andromeda’s buttons knowing that he has the upper hand.
“All right Scully, you win... ” Andromeda has given up knowing that she can’t surpass Itachi’s stubbornness.
Itachi-san and Andromeda were ghost-hunter enthusiasts, well... Andromeda was hoping to finally prove their existence while Itachi was gladly debunking the “evidence”. They were investigating an early Victorian mansion in England. The old man that lived there passed away a while ago but the staff that remained in the house for basic maintenance was experiencing strange noises at night.
They were packing up their high-tech gadgets, when Itachi took a paper and a pen and started doodling something.
“What are you writing?” Andromeda was curious, “I thought you wanted to leave this place as soon as possible and now you’re writing a poem?” she smiled, but her smile soon turned into a frown because he wasn’t responding.
“Hey! Stop ignoring me!” Andromeda yelled.
“What?” Itachi dropped the paper and the pen he was holding just a moment ago (they both ended up behind him) and continued packing like nothing happened.
“Sometimes you can be such an ...” she refrained from finishing the sentence and asked him again “What were you writing?”
“Did you skip your pills this morning, I’m packing, what are you yelling at me for?” it seamed he was still in a bad mood.
Andromeda got up took the paper he was writing on and put it few inches from Itachi’s face “This paper!”
Vladivostok
Belize
Singapore
Armenia
Kingston
Oslo
Thailand
Libya
Suriname
“Well apparently someone likes to travel, but that’s not my handwriting, besides I think I would have remembered writing this.”
“You have some ink on your index finger from holding the pen” Andromeda noticed with a grin, and then seriously asked "You are winding me up, aren't you?"
Suddenly the globe that was peacefully resting on the desk almost made a full spin and then plummeted, continuing to rock back and forth, causing our two adventurous ghost hunters to freeze in their posts.
“Maybe a short circuit...” Itachi was stretching, but Andromeda immediately put a cork in his mouth “There’s no cord coming out of the globe. Hey maybe we have woken up a hamster that was hibernating inside the globe for months and he made it move” Andromeda couldn’t withhold her sarcasm and burst into echoing laughter.
Itachi stood up and surprisingly asked “Do you think that it’s trying to tell us something?”
Andromeda was shocked by this sudden transformation “OK... I know that you said that you are willing to believe if presented with solid evidence, but this is weird.”
“Look...” Itachi sighed, “I’m not saying that there’s some abstract entity communicating with us, but...”
“Of course not” Andromeda rolled her eyes.
“But...” Itachi continued, “Who ever left this note and spin the globe needs our help, right? So let’s help by figuring out what this list means”
“Wow... we have to remember this moment, we both agreed on the same thing” Andromeda was teasing, but Itachi’s mind was already consumed by the list.
As he was spinning the globe and looking at the list an idea sparked in his brilliant mind.
“Could you hand me that pen please?” Itachi reached for the pen Andromeda was holding and started writing something on the paper.
Andromeda was looking over his shoulder “I would’ve never thought of that!” she exclaimed with excitement.
“It’s your turn” Itachi smiled ear to ear.
“OK...” she agreed, “But if there’s nothing in there, you’re the one cleaning up the mess”
What did the list say?