Flowers and Bees

As Elanor and Harry further descended down the spiral staircase into the faint blue light, the walls around them suddenly gave way and they found themselves in a circular room of about the same size as the glass house above. The floor was tiled in a mesmerizing pattern of blue and green.

The room was encircled by dark wooden shelves, reaching from the floor almost to the ceiling. There was a bronce ladder on a rail for reaching the higher parts. The shelves were only interrupted by a large desk on which there was a stack of actual paper as well as some notebooks. There was also an old metal box with a picture of cookies on it, which contained a collection of pens and pencils in various shapes and colours. The shelves at the walls were filled also with books, boxes, ornamental figurines and other knick-knack, like a teddy bear in a space suit. The most prominent items however were all in all 5 transperent cylinders filled with what seemed to be a glowing blue liquid. One cylinder standing on some kind of apparatus with several screens of which Elanor and Harry could make neither head nor tail after cluelessly looking at it for a few minutes. When Harry wanted to randomnly press a button, Elanor stopped him.

'No pressing of buttons, you know what happened last time, when we were on that kangaroo case,' she said.

Harry sighed. He took one of the cylinders from the shelf instead and looked at it.

'It looks old,' Harry remarked ,'and it reminds me of something. I just can't say what exactly.'

He put the item back on the shelf and looked around some more. In the middle of the room, around the bottom of the spiral staircase, stood three large, ornamental flower pots. They contained three large plants which were about as high as an everage person and sprouted large, meaty leaves. One of them also had a bunch of dark blue, bell-shaped flowers, which appeared to be emitting a faint blue light. The plants were obviously growing in this room in almost complete darkness.

There also seemed to be some kind of buzzing around the flowers, which Elanor first thought came from bees, but upon further inspection turned out to be tiny drones. They watched the drones for a few minutes, when one of them left the plant and flew over to the strange apparatus. It started to hum and soon a drop of light blue syrup-like substance fell into a tiny glass vial.

Harry gave a whistle ,' now that's something.'

Elanor nodded, 'I think it literally is nectar. That's like discovering the secret formula of Crypto Cola. But... how?'

Harry watched the tiny drone flying back to the flower. Well', he said ,'I guess he was serious about breeding flowers, right?'

Elanor nodded while looking around. She found the switch of the lamp at the desk,which helped to view the amount of things which were actually hidden in this room. Elanor activated a link to the police station asking for backup. After a few minutes of arguing she ended the call ,'well, looks like they are all busy and we'll be on our own for now', she clapped her hands, 'so, let's get to work.'

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