The faint tapping got louder and louder until Marie finally looked up from her paperwork. The pigeon on the window sill stopped tapping and gave her a look that told her to just freaking let him in already. Marie sighed and pressed the button that released the hatch holding the pigeon sized door in the window shut. The bird pushed it open with a butt of his head before flying over to land on her desk.
"You better not leave any 'presents' this time, buddy!" Marie fiddled with the birds leather harness and released a small vial from it's fastenings.
"Thank you, now - off you go!" She gestured towards the still open and the pigeon rustled his feathers dismissively before taking off into the night.
Marie twisted the brass cap on the vial and freed the tightly rolled piece of paper from the dark glass tube. She recognized the writing at once, it was one of her more frequent clients, and she read through the short message several times before taking down a few notes. Attaching the message to the notes she looked at the time keeper on her desk, 10 pm, the rest of the preparations would have to wait for tomorrow. Adding a final note telling her assistant, Miss Sarah, to send confirmation to the client that she would indeed take the assignment she gathered her things and headed for the door, dropping the sheet of paper on Miss Sarah's desk as she passed it.
On her desk the paperwork lay forgotten.
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