It was wild; I'd never been in a place like this before.The waiter arrived with a decanter of wine and four long stem glasses, pouring each of us a gl...ss. Linda took her's and stood at the railing overlooking the dancing crowd below. Her hips moved with the music as she danced holding onto the railing with one hand. The lighting on the balcony floor was mostly by candle light, but I could see Linda's body shape through her dress from the lighting flashing onto the dance floor. It was very. I thought they were still debating what to do next." Well," my mother said with a grin, "Emma and Linda have a plan for now and most of the others are in agreement with them. There's still debate on whether we should continue building the permanent dwelling like our 'benefactors' want us to do or to pick different building materials. A couple like the idea of the shipping containers and a few think we should use adobe bricks instead of the tires, and there are a couple who want to say 'fuck it'. Why don’t I see if they’ve had a cancellation?”“That would be nice, Jason. I sure hope they have.”- - - - -It was almost six PM when I pulled up to the office at the Inn of Lancaster. Nicole went inside with me."Hi, Maria! How goes it?" Hello, Mr. Matthews. I have your favorite room for you."“Oh great. Thanks. Maria, this is Nicole. She had a small traffic mishap down in Acton and needs a room. Any chance you’ve had a cancellation?”“Oh, I’m sorry. No. I’ve been turning away people all day. In one of the jewellery stores in Horn, I found a broach that had the crystal that stored energy in it.It wasn’t real pretty, and the gem obviously wasn’t considered worth much. I, however, knew very different. It didn’t cost me much to purchase. Not that I really had to worry about coin. I had the extra bags in my magic box and had worked out that I was quite rich.I had found a spell in the second book I had that let me make a ship’s travel shield. What this did was effectively smoothed the.