"I don't know," Burton Stein replied truthfully.
Had he known, he would not have come to the auction to bid; he would have gone straight to the source to either buy it... or take it by force. There would have been no need for such an elaborate process.
His purpose in coming to the auction, beyond bidding for the Mutated Blood Coral, was to see if he could discover who had consigned it for sale. However, he had uncovered nothing. He had found no information within the Caribbean Group, and coming to the auction site had yielded no further results.
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