The spirits can do a lot more with what they have for a lot less.

(Still a minute or so before arriving at the camp site but it is in view)

Fernando and Hondo notice a couple of more vehicles have parked themselves into the large parking lot. with a couple more driving in and looking for a spot to hunker down in. As they enter on the park lot an older looking couple (male and female) with heavy pack packs approaches them. Perhaps they were not older but definitely much more rough around the edges.

"Da Festivities still going on?" the older male asks as he steps into view with his lantern raised at head level.

"Yeah, just head down straight to that open gate and walk into town. It looks like it's going to go on for days." Fernando points to where the fence opens up about 20 yards away.

"Why are you carryin' your backpacks? They would be safe in your ride." Hondo asks.

"This be here our tradin' money." the man answers.

"We be prospectors." The woman says, sounding younger then she appears to be.

"We mine for scraps from the wrecks and the mountains do have gold though its hard get too. But we be harder." The man says.

"Interesting. What do you do with with what you find? I mean, I do not think you stuffed a car fender in your back pack..." Fernando points out.

"We got several mini ark furnaces to melt down what we find. We can melt a wreck in into small blocks that take up a whole lot less room. Each furnace takes care of a particular metal: Steel, coppah, aluminmum, silver, gold and so on as to not mess up what we find. We find it, test it and melt it down, then we can sell it." The man explains.

(Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTzKIs19eZE )

"I'm sure there are many who are willing to make a deal for your wares. Enjoy your stay." Fernando says.

"Yeah. We hope to run into the liberators. We got a few relatives who were taken by the slavers." The man says as he reaches out to shake their hands.

"They're out there somewhere. Maybe you will find them tomorrow." Hondo points out, knowing that it would be nice to know who the people around them are but now is a time to rest and come down from the tension both he and Fernando have been riding on all day. "Y'all enjoy your stay, we're headin' in for some shut eye."

"Much Oblige! We'll definitely meet up again..." The man says as they shake hands.

In a few seconds, the couple is heading into town for perhaps a prosperous and good time.

"Mountain people... I did not think there was gold over on this side of the Rockies." Fernando says as they start to head back to their campers.

"It takes all kinds to make a world. I prefer to have hard working people like that around me than those who sit around getting fat in the city..." Hondo adds.

"I would too. What about what they said - finding lost relatives the slavers took away?" Fernando asks.

"You told me once long ago that as much as rescuing life is such an important job to do, we need to take care of our selves first before we can help them." Hondo points out

"Yeah." Fernando replies as they step up to their camp. They turn around and look at the other vehicles that came in during their absence. "The place is getting crowded..."

"I know what you mean. Hope it does not become a problem..." Hondo replies before they retire to their vehicles.

After Mavis packs her suitcase (including a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, sunscreen and money), she is transported back to camp. Mavis looks up at the clear night sky, sets her suitcase by the gas Camper as to not disturb the occupants and transforms into a bat. She flies above the camp and looks below her. She has a good vantage point to spot any activity in the camp. From here she can also see the festivities still going on though from a distance.


In the middle of the night the temperature in the gas Camper begins to go down. Elsa is moving in her sleep as her facial expressions change. She suddenly sits up. "Momma! Papa!"

Moro, who is sharing the bed with Elsa, awakes and sits up.

Elsa throws her arms around and embraces Moro. "Spirit."

Moro points to the side door and whispers. "Let's step outside."

Moro touches the door and as quietly as it can, it opens. Moro steps outside. After Elsa stepped outside Moro places her hand on the door again until the door's mechanisms had closed the door tightly.

Mavis spots the activity, flies down and transforms into her human form but maintains a privacy distance as Moro is handling this.

Elsa begins without first naming what she experienced, a bad dream. "I was asleep in my room in the castle when a crow in the window woke me up. I sat up and saw that woman with the long black hair and red dress. She was in my room. She was wearing a hooded cape and holding a baby in her arms. Guards came in my room as the woman escaped out the window. Before she came into my room, she was in another part of the castle."

It stands to reason that the woman came in Elsa's room a different way than how she left. By default she would be in another part of the castle. Elsa does not know how she knows this; she knows that the woman was in the castle for another reason.

Moro throws her arms around Elsa.