Note: This is written in collaboration with Arik.
 
The sun is shining, that's good but it's too cold for it to be melting the snow. That's good because if the snow melts and refreezes, Jeanette will be having difficulty keeping the Camper on the road.
 
"Elsa, Anna and Moro were speaking to each other in the girls' native language so I don't know what was said but they were speaking. Moro seems to be great with kids. We had to be careful at the check point because of Elsa but Moro handled the situation well."
 
Elsa and Anna step out of the Camper as Anna puts her mittens back on.
 
"Could you show me your power?" Anna asks in their native language.
 
Elsa removes her gloves and tucks them under her arm. She holds her cupped hands several inches apart but facing each other. A snowball begins to form, growing in size until a perfectly spherical snowball forms. "Hold out your hands."
 
Anna holds out her hands.
 
The snowball remains suspended in mid air between Elsa's hands until it lands in Anna's. Elsa puts her gloves back on.
 
Anna holds the snowball her sister created. "This is amazing!"
 
Hikaru and Moro enter the nursing home converted into a hotel.
 
Hikaru approaches the front desk. "First of all, I want to see one of the rooms."
 
"Are you two together?" The woman at the desk asks.
 
"Yes."
 
The hotel employee looks at the Spirit who appears to be a woman in a hooded cape. "Is she your guardian? She's rather quiet." The employee behind the desk gets up. "This way."
 
The rooms, like the halls, are tile. The room is plain but clean. In the room are four matching twin beds, typical of those in nursing homes.
 
"Most of our rooms have four twin size beds. We have a couple of larger rooms with six beds. Each room comes with a shower."
 
Hikaru walks in the bathroom and turns on the light. In it are a sink, toilet and a large shower, big enough for a nursing assistant to help a disabled resident.
 
"We have a dining room, which you passed by, and laundry facilities." The employee continues.
 
"How much is it to use the laundry room?" Hikaru asks.
 
"We have employees to wash the laundry for you. For those paying for a room with silver, laundry will be an extra ounce of silver."
 
An ounce of silver for laundry is too much. Hikaru remembers what Moro said about negotiating a good deal using gold. They step out into the hall.
 
"Do you have a larger bed?" Hikaru asks. "A member of our party is big."
 
Jeanette Isabelle and Arik

Note: This is written in collaboration with Arik.
 
"It's fine." Jeanette answers. "I had some trouble with the wind."
 
In their native language, referring to the winter, Elsa said to Anna, "I don't know how to stop it." Moro was there when Elsa said that; Moro is currently in the hotel with Hikaru.
 
 
"We have one room with a large bed." The hotel employee walks to the room closest to the front entrance. In it are one large bed and two twin-size beds.
 
Hikaru steps out of the hotel. "Fernando, they have one room with a large bed. Everything else they have is twin size. Do you want to see it before we discus cost?"
 
Jeanette Isabelle and Arik

Hikaru returns. "We'll take the room with the large bed and a room with six beds." Hikaru goes to her purse. In it there are one ounce silver coins and gold coins of different weights. She thumbs through the coins until she gets what she's looking for, two 1/10 ounce gold coins. "I offer two tenths of an ounce of gold for one night in the room with the large bed and a room with six beds."
 
"One night in a room is an ounce of silver. One ounce of gold will get you a room for a week including meals and laundry service."
 
"I know the hotel industry is manipulating the price of silver and that a tenth of an ounce of gold is more than the actual value of an ounce of silver." Hikaru thinks the hotel employee may not know this.
 
"I'll be right back." The hotel employee goes to her manager's office and returns. "If you like, you can talk to the manager."
 
"I'll talk to your boss."
 
Moro, who has her hood pulled over her face, follows Hikaru.
 
The hotel manager is standing in front of her office door. "I understand you wish to haggle?"
 
"I have Swiss gold."
 
"Come in and have a seat."
 
Hikaru, still holding the two small pieces of gold, has a seat in front of the desk. She looks relaxed as if she has the upper hand. Moro stands behind Hikaru, to one side, silent. Her hood is still pulled down, over her face.
 
The manager sits behind the desk. "The two rooms you request with meals and laundry service for one night is three tenths of an ounce of gold."
 
"In that case I'll pay three ounces of silver." Hikaru retrieves three silver coins and lays it on the desk.
 
The value of the two small gold coins she offered is $200. The manipulated value of the silver coins on the desk ranges from $375 to $400 but the actual value is $30.
 
The manager will not accept three ounces of silver for two good rooms, meals and laundry service but she knows if she accepts the two small gold coins, she'll be verifying Hikaru's claim of silver being manipulated.
 
Hikaru knows she can't go too low on her gold offer, not without at least some silver on top of that. Some places, not all, do accept the artificial value of silver. Therefore, the hotel can buy some things with the artificially inflated silver. Of course so can the party. Traders only stay one night in each place so the hotel may have more silver coins than they can spend and are in need of gold coins. Hikaru does not know how much silver the hotel has nor how much gold they need.
 
The hotel manager makes a counter offer. "One quarter ounce of gold for two rooms, meals and laundry service."
 
One-quarter ounce of gold is around the artificial value of two ounces of silver. Hikaru will come out ahead but only if one just looks at the artificial value of silver.
 
"One tenth of an ounce of gold and two ounces of silver." The artificial value of Hikaru's counter offer is at least $350 but the actual value is $120.
 
The hotel manager knows if she rejects this offer, she would verify Hikaru's claim that silver is being manipulated. She suspects Hikaru planed this all along.
 
 
Hikaru and Moro exit the hotel with two hotel keys.
 
"We got two hotel rooms with meals and laundry service."

Hikaru steps back inside. "The floor, walls, ceiling, they are all white with little in decoration. However, it's clean and in good shape." Hikaru steps in the room closest to the entrance and turns on the light. "Here we have a bed big enough for two and two twin size beds. Come and check this out." Hikaru turns the bathroom light on. "Since this used to be a nursing home, every room has a large shower."
 
Hikaru turns the lights off. "Our two rooms are not together. The other room is this way." Hikaru walks to a larger bedroom and turns on the light. The six twin size beds match the two twin size beds in the other room.

Hikaru looks at the clock. "It's not even 4:00 yet. We have plenty of time." Hikaru thinks about who will sleep where. "Elsa and Anna will stay together. The Spirits want Danielle to stay with Jeanette, Chihiro and Elsa. I think Moro wants to stay with Elsa. That's six. It looks like I will be sharing a room with you and Macey."