by Narrator » Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:06 am
"Come in, come in, come in," the proprietor said -- an man in his late 40s, wearing some kind of eyepiece over one eye. "Welcome to Gadget Box, Maldon's top spot for gently-used electronics."
The walls and center counter of the small shop were covered with electronics, some still in clamshell packaging, others out and loose. The wares were...a little different than what Laura had seen previously.
The front of the store had the highlight items. Modern electronics being what they were, there were a bunch of small black boxes -- like cell-phones, but without screens or other obvious interfaces. There were a selection of earpieces in a bucket, as well as some sealed tiny black dots of some kind. None of these items looked particularly familiar, and the logos and brands displayed on the hand-drawn placards were not immediately recognizable.