Carin poked at her tablet again, then flipped it over, revealing an image of the small artifact in question. "This device?" she asked. "Indeed, the preliminary reports from the lab suggest it is made of an alloy we've found exclusively at several other Enclaves, and it is extremely dangerous," she said, "do you know where this enclave was?" she asked.<br/><br/>The Japanese enclave was even harder to find than the sites in North America. Until five years ago they were the only places where the higher-potency abilities like pyro-, -terra-and hydro-kinetics could assert themselves. Now it's everywhere, but the enclaves still had other 'higher level' abilities that made them valuable real estate. Finding and securing them was a cross-bureaucracy undertaking with W13 near the front lines.<br/><br/>As a friend of hers from school said, 'that's out of scope'.<i>He</i>was her responsibility.<br/><br/>She cleared her throat, "if you help us, I can see to it you are duly compensated. Of course, I<i>do</i>have a proposal for you," she said, her face a slab of emotionless stone.