Fernando
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Fernando Sets aside a plate for himself as he goes out to Karl's truck. It's a treacherous walk through the iced up snow though the air is warming up. Hopefully it will melt the snow soon enough, he thinks. Getting to Karl's truck, Fernando sees that the rear seat has been taken out and turned into a bed, with a pile of blankets on top of it. He taps on the window hard enough to enough to be heard but not so hard as to break it. The blankets rustle for a moment but then stops. Fernando then knocks on the door under the window, much harder than he did with the window. This time Karl gets up enough to stick his head out of the blankets Fernando points to the wrapped up plate of food he holds up to the window and shouts, "Your morning meal is here." Karl reaches over to the door and opens it. Fernando places the covered plate on the seat by Karl's head. Fernando tells him, "Time to wake up. You'll rest later for you have a long drive tonight. Know of the towns around here - who's friendly to mutants and who's not?" "I may know of something." Karl says. "Good, get dressed. You're coming with Hondo and I for some intel gathering for tonight's ride. Find out how much gas you need in this thing and if you know your Mechanics, check if it needs oil or other things." Fernando tells him as he takes a visual inventory of the vehicle's supplies, "Good. You got a 2-way radio. Keep it on Channel 23. Now hurry up, there's hot coffee in Hondo's truck, and I'll get you some needed stuff when we get to town. See you in about 5 minutes." Fernando was about to close the door when Karl calls to him, "Wait!" Fernando stops before he closes the door. Karl continues, "Why so generous?" "Why not?" Fernando replies. "Yesterday you were about to feed me to a dinosaur, that's why." Karl throws at him. "Lucy is for those who betray's my trust. Playing with a girl's feelings is betraying my trust. Respect my trust, and you will be rewarded. I will reward you and get you things you need: food, water, clothes, gas for this rolling wreck, what ever. Get where I am coming from?" Fernando tells him. "Yeah." Karl replies. "Good. Now hurry up. You got five minutes to get to Hondo's camper." Fernando says to him. "You in cahoots with those spirits?" Karl asks. "If you're asking if I am working for them, No. But we do have a vested interest in rescuing a mutant or a wessen - a young girl with black bird's wings named Gabrielle. She's about 800 miles away from here, we wont find her for a few more days. But when we find her, we have to rescue her. Then we have to take her to Texas. You are not to be part of that rescue unless you want to help out. So I ask, you have a problem these spirits?" Fernando says and asks. "They are spirits. They created us and now want us dead or enslaved because they do not want the world to know we exist as their failed experiment." Karl explains. "I doubt these are the spirits that created you and the other wessens, as there are many spirits out there. One of them did create you and the others but I doubt it's these idiots I'm dealing with that did. But you have my word that I will protect you from spirits trying to harm you. And if they get you, I will rescue you, along with any other wessen out there. All you have to do is work with us and help us as best as you can. Deal?" Fernando tells him. "Deal." Karl says. "Good. You got 5 minutes to get to Hondo's camper." Fernando tells him before closing the door. Karl looks out the window, seeing snow outside. He decides to hurry up and finish his meal before getting dressed to get to Hondo's camper. The last time he remembers seeing snow was from a barred window in a 6 by 4 concrete room with no blankets and no mattress several months ago.
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