Jeanette retrieves her flashlight from her purse, goes to a cabinet and retrieves a roll of toilet paper. "Ladies, let's go find it. I have a bottle of hand sanitizer in my pocket."
 
Jeanette Isabelle

Note: This is written in collaboration with Arik.
 
The ladies return.
 
"Hikaru," Jeanette asks, "do you want to start with my purse or case?"
 
Hikaru had asked Jeanette what she brought with her.
 
"We can start with your purse." Hikaru answers.
 
Jeanette picks up her purse, sits down on the bench seat and sets her flashlight down. "You've seen my flashlight."
 
"D-Cell batteries are made in Texas."
 
Jeanette retrieves her hairbrush and what looks like a smaller brush. "Natural bristle Mason Pearson hairbrush and its cleaning tool." Retrieves a small black case. "Seki Edge manicure kit, made in Japan." Jeanette may not be on the A-list; she can still afford to buy the best hairbrush and manicure kit. "A small stainless steel water bottle." It looks like a stainless steel baby bottle with a water bottle cap. That's exactly what it is. In addition to high-quality water bottles, the company makes durable baby bottles and the caps are interchangeable. "A red Zippo lighter."
 
"As you may have noticed, from doing inventory, Zippo is still around. When all hell broke loose and companies saw the Texas Spirits protecting their home, they moved to Texas. Zippo no longer makes new lighters but they fix old ones and sell lighter fluid, flints and wicks."
 
"Eyeglass case, three protein bars, an unopened bottle of Vitamin B-12 pills, another bottle of hand sanitizer, travel size Kleenex, a tube of Vaseline, white cotton gloves in a Ziploc bag."
 
"I thought you stopped using gloves."
 
"I keep a pair in a Ziploc bag just in case." Jeanette continues. "My iPod Nano, wallet and passport."
 
"Why a passport?"
 
Jeanette returns the items to her purse. "A few weeks ago the Spirits told me I'd be going to the Pacific Northwest. I did not know if they meant Canada or the United States." She puts her purse away and opens her Pelican case. "A fixed blade knife designed by a wilderness expert and knife designer I trust. A knife cleaning cloth in a sealable pouch. I don't have a knife sharpener with me because the only one I know how to use is too big. A pocket survival kit. I replaced the plastic Spark-Lite with the aluminum version because it's more durable and I can replace the flint. I also included an extra flint. Stormproof matches. Once lit, you can't put them out, not even if you bury it in sand. They have to burn out on their own. A candle lantern with a citronella candle."
 
"I haven't seen citronella candle in years."
 
"Seriously?" Jeanette asks. "Citronella oil is natural."
 
"That's true but citronella oil needs to be imported and that gets expensive. As you saw, there are plenty of beeswax candles. Use them unless we have a mosquito problem. Once again, new candle lanterns are not being made but parts and beeswax candles are."
 
"Only beeswax candles are being made?"
 
"Bee keeping is a very good business to be in right now. Even the smallest of settlements has at least one bee keeper."
 
"A multi-fuel stove with a spare parts kit and funnel. Though it's a multi-fuel stove, to my understanding it works best with kerosene. Let me guess, new ones are not being made but parts are. A compact, space saving kettle, a small fire extinguisher."
 
"That's good. It's a refillable one. While old fire extinguishers are becoming more and more scarce, they are still being serviced."
 
"A cute little lunch box. It's a luxury item that does not take up much space since it holds other items like my spoon, packets of vitamin drink mix and coffee kits." Jeanette assembled the coffee kits so she can have her coffee the way she likes it: decaffeinated with extra cream, no sugar. Each kit comes with a paper napkin and they are packed in a Ziploc bag.
 
"Hang onto the Ziploc bags. You can sell them. Plastic bags are being made but they are expensive."
 
"Water filter."
 
"Replacement filters are made."
 
"Eight packets of died milk, one quart each. Undergarments and socks in aLOCSAK bags, beach towel, all weather space blanket, emergency poncho, handkerchief in a Ziploc bag, lip balm, sun screen, insect repellent, leather work gloves in aLOCSAK bag, personal protection items, Alka-Seltzer, potassium iodine for one adult and four children, Campsuds."
 
"Campsuds is being made. Bring your own bottle and they'll fill it."
 
"Dr. Bronner’s liquid castile soap, hair rinse, travel toothbrush, credit card size dental floss."
 
"Did you bring toothpaste?"
 
"Even a large tube would not go very far in an emergency. Liquid castle soap can be used as toothpaste and since one drop is all that's needed, one bottle will go a long way."
 
"The Spirits have provided toothpaste from Japan."
 
"Deodorant, silica gel packet for dehumidifying the kit. The journal you keep talking about, a Fisher pen, the most reliable pen I know of, and a public restroom survival kit." Jeanette takes a breath. "I wish I had brought my professional knife sharpening system. Too late now."
 
Jeanette Isabelle and Arik

Jeanette looks in amazement at the book Hikaru is holding. "My journal was published?" Jeanette exclaims. "Things are beginning to make sense now. No wonder businesses moved to Texas. At the first signs of prophecy fulfilled, they knew Texas would be a safe place. Let me see that."
 
Jeanette Isabelle

"Hikaru. I wrote the book you have in your hands."
 
Jeanette Isabelle

"Jeanette, you wrote those things in the not too distant future." You reading will mess up the Time line as it is. Changes are the book you have in your supplies or will buy later on will be your dairy you will write into while you are here. How it ended up in the past to where Hikaru would get it is another story. You Hikaru should not be reading it and then telling Jeanette what to do or not do, you're polluting the Time doing that." Fernando tells Jeanette, "Now, as to sharpen a knife, any rock will do. I recommend a piece of smooth Granite. Now you ladies washed up and prettied yourselves?"