"Replenish?" Jeanette recognizes this is the first test of her problem solving skills. "Wait, I have a tube of Vaseline." Jeanette puts everything down, opens her Pelican case and pulls out her leather work gloves in aLOCSAK bag, like a Ziploc bag only tougher. She opens the bag, pulls out the gloves and puts them on. "I'm not as strong as you men. Where can a person of reduced strength be the most useful?"
 
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"Stand next to you?" Jeanette follows Fernando to the River's edge. She moves her boot-clad feet about until she feels she has solid footing. The footing can change in an instant so she maps the ground so she can quickly form and execute a Plan B (let go and/or get up as fast as she can). She reaches down and pulls up the edge of the net. She listens for Fernando's instructions for she knows things will move quickly. She cannot hesitate. She must act as soon as Fernando gives orders.
 
Jeanette Isabelle

Note: This is written in collaboration with Arik.
 
Jeanette has yet to remove her leather work gloves that are now wet. "Hikaru, could you get the Vaseline? It's in my purse."
 
"Here it is." Chihiro reaches for Jeanette's purse, still in the basket.
 
"Chihiro, you haven't cleaned your hands since handling the mouse."
 
"I've cleaned my hands." Chihiro protests.
 
"You've licked them. You may have a feline tongue but licking your hands does not count as properly cleaning them. You're from Japan, you should know better."
 
"I got it." Without touching anything else inside, Hikaru retrieves the tube of Vaseline and approaches Jeanette. "Let me do it for you."
 
"Thank you." Jeanette removes her gloves and hands them to Hikaru.
 
Hikaru proceeds to "oil" Jeanette's leather gloves, working the Vaseline into them.
 
Jeanette retrieves the bottle of hand sanitizer from her pocket, squeezes a small amount in her left palm, closes the cap on the bottle and returns it to her pocket before rubbing the sanitizer on her hands. She goes to her Pelican case retrieves a hand wipe, waste bag and Clorox disinfecting wipe. She gets back to Chihiro and hands her the hand wipe. "Use this to wash your hands and face."
 
Chihiro rips open the wipe, tosses the wrapper in the waste bag and proceeds to wash her hands and face. Chihiro tosses the hand wipe into the waste bag.
 
"Don't touch anything right now." Still holding onto the outside of the bag and the Clorox disinfecting wipe, Jeanette gets back to Hikaru and puts down the waste bag. She picks up the aLOCSAK bag the gloves were in and cleans the exterior of the bag to be sure. Jeanette holds the bag open by the ends as Hikaru places the gloves in the bag. Jeanette seals the bag and returns it to the Pelican case. "Vaseline tube."
 
Hikaru hands the tube of Vaseline to Jeanette.
 
Jeanette cleans the Vaseline tube with the disinfecting wipe and returns the tube to her purse. She cleans parts of the Pelican case she touched and finally cleans the handle bar of Chihiro's bike with the disinfecting wipe. "You touched the handlebars after eating the mouse."
 
Jeanette tosses the disinfecting wipe into the waste bag without touching the bag. Once again, retrieving the bottle of hand sanitizer from her pocket, Jeanette squeezes a small amount in Hikaru's hand and then her left palm, closes the cap on the bottle and returns it to her pocket before rubbing the sanitizer on her hands.
 
Hikaru rubs the sanitizer in her hands.
 
Jeanette Isabelle and Arik

A crow caws.
 
Tonane translates. "The Spirit says your lodging will be here soon."
 
Jeanette Isabelle

Jeanette gathers her gear. "Tonane by 'lodging' does the Spirit mean Campers?"
 
The crow caws followed by another sound.
 
"That's the word the Teyshas Spirit used."
 
"Teyshas . . . that's the Caddo Indian word were we get the name Texas."
 
Tonane leads the way.
 
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