Chapter 197

SSHS 197

The familiar clunk coming from the glass tube of cryptex can be heard throughout the room. Hestia and Albert looked at each other at the resonance of the sound. A signal that the crypotex has been solved and the message can now be accessed. Hestia carefully extracted the piece of paper inside the glass tube cryptex and put the cryptex down the desk of Albert. With bated breaths, Albert waited for Hestia to read what was written at the piece of paper out loud. “What is in it?” Albert lost his patience and asked his spy partner. But instead of reading what was written, Hestia simply showed him the paper.

There were no letter written in the paper--- only symbols to which they are vaguely familiar with. Some strokes and commas and circles: one small and one big circle. The more that the two of them stared at the piece of paper, the more they remembered the symbols are about. Or how to decode them. “We often see this when we get dragged to a trial to watc