"The Eye of Horus Affair" for PicFic Tuesday

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The prompt:

Streets lined with shops and jewelry exchanges, their windows filled with dazzling pieces. Crowded with shoppers, cops, street hustlers and courier; there was a constant state of motion.

Above and below these street level operations were back rooms where artisans toiled, cutting, polishing and sorting precious gemstones. There were more behind the scenes people, there were the graders, appraisers, designers and dealers, and lots of deals.

“Series K-7991, simply called ‘the vault,” Kuryakin noted as they were escorted downstairs in one of those shops in New York’s diamond district on 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Here’s What’s Happening for February on Section VII

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The choice - What If? - Jan 31st

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Prompt – What if... Illya was CEO and Napoleon the new recruit?


Ten sets of eyes looked to the door as it opened, allowing two men to enter.

“Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to U.N.C.L.E. New York,” the first man greeted, with a warm a smile. “My name is Peter Webster and I am Number 1, Section 6. In other words I head up security and personnel.”

“And I am Rudolph Keller,” the second man stated, with much less warmth than Webster. “I run Section 3. I trust I don’t need to tell you what we do. One thing I will say is, we are not the second prize when it comes to being an U.N.C.L.E. agent. Section 2 may look like the glamour boys, but we work just as hard, for half the credit.”

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