A Memory Faded

[Spectre]

"That I am. By now, you've probably come to conclusion I'm crazy, huh?"
His vocal patterns seemed to be a little critiquist, and now seemed to sound like he was actually crazy, aside from the fact that he clearly wasn't.
"You're wasting your time. Try looking up something on that stone, and you'll come to the same conclusion I did. There's nothing you can deter from that damned thing except that it talks, is clearly alien, has a wicked sense of humor and obviously gets to people."

"I've spent almost every moment of my free time trying to find out what that thing is, and I have almost twelve years of experience dealing with things like this. This thing isn't something you can just take to a lab and figure out."