Subterfuge

You hide him amongst the nicnacs and clutter you’ve found until you’ve safely reached home. The collectors will be here soon but you hide him until they are gone too. He’s breathing, but just barely. You try to nurse him back to health as best you can.

It takes a few days before he’s able to speak but when he does he thanks you. You exchange names and find out that his name is Jonathan, and that he’s an amnesiac.

His features, sallowed as they are, are handsome in the pale light.

Jonathan reveals to you the object he had been clutching in his hands: It’s a white cube, small enough to fit into the palm of your hand. It’s surface is segmented, as if the parts might move like something akin to a child’s toy. He doesn’t know why he has it, only that it is important.

Now might be your chance. Steal off into the night, cube in hand. Perhaps this ordeal may have been worth something after all…

You’ve heard rumours of someone who appraises objects like this. That he’s something of a “Finder”. You take Jonathan to meet this person, in hopes that he may find answers to his past…