The orb didn't reveal any secrets upon initial inspections. In fact, other than the fact that he could see it and was holding it, Franc couldn't confirm that it existed.
He first put it under a microscope, but as he looked through the lens, there was nothing there. He pulled his face away and repositioned the strange object, expecting that he had simply gotten a bad angle. After checking the position of the object and the view through the microscope multiple times, he decided there was something wrong with his microscope.
The next logical move was to try to get it to react with one of his tools.
He pulled a small pedestal closer to him and set the orb on top of it. He watched it for a couple of seconds, waiting for something to happen. Nothing did. After taking it off of the pedestal, Franc took a small metal rod and moved to touch it to the strange object. However, instead of tapping its surface, the rod simply passed through it.
That was the moment he decided that he needed to contact some of his new associates. He took a picture of the orb and immediately uploaded it to his computer so he could email them. On a whim, he decided to open the picture and check it. When he did, he found that there was no orb in the shot.
It took him three more attempts to decide that the object couldn't be photographed.
"What are you?" Franc asked, mostly to himself but also partially hoping for an answer.
His hope was rewarded with a slightly brighter glow from the orb.
Franc stared in disbelief. Then, he spent a moment chastising himself for feeling even a twinge of disbelief after what he'd seen in the last several weeks.
"Can you here me?" Franc whispered to the artifact.
The orb's red surface darkened to black then faded into a bright shade of yellow.
"Can I trust you?"
The yellow shifted very suddenly back to red.
Franc, eyes wide with fear, leapt across the room, pulled a small wooden box from under his mattress, threw the orb in it, and ran with it to his backyard. It took him the entirety of the next two hours to dig a hole he felt was deep enough to bury it.
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