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After an awkward silence about what had just happened, Mack walked Art out of the house and exchanged a few more words about the plan, but nothing really important and once Art was out of the property he closed the door and said to himself, "Aliens and their dammed costumes, why give a bow? A hand shake is way better"

But Mack was clueless that there was once a time in history that almost every culture had their own greetings, but all changed with the 'Plague of Nitis', the reason why now almost all civilizations have the costume to never touch other people when doing greetings. Thus, bowing to the other person as a greeting became the new norm.

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Inside Harlack Studio,

"Please sit," said Harlack, signaling with his hand for Lorin to take a seat in the chair in front of his desk.