Your luggage is filled with paint supplies, your door painting tucked snugged in the center and ready for use
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"So what's it like in Manitoba?"
Robert grinned eagerly and quickly began to spill tales about Manitoba's wilds. The winters were deep and cold, but the way that it came to life during the summer! It was lush and bright, and the woods were wonderful to roam in. He had a hilarious tale of running into a bunch of poison ivy when he'd found what he had thought was a particularly interesting find in the water, only to realize later that he'd been getting worked up over an old coyote skull.
The clock struck seven just as the waitress working the diner car accidentally knocked over a glass and hurriedly picked it up. She came to the table and asked what you wanted. You both ordered the full dinner with glasses of wine to go with it. She nodded and jotted it down before heading back away, leaving Robert to share about how he'd come across one of the local tribes in the area on a camping trip. There was a sacred area near where he'd been camping, and he hadn't even realized it. They had been quite hospitable to him, sharing stories and helping him improve his camp cooking.
You took your time over dinner, but Robert picked more at his food as he began to talk about his work and the samples he'd been taking in the area. Finally he told you that he had discovered an ancient gemstone, and asked you to wait for him as he went to fetch it. You nodded and watched as he left. You were finished dinner at this point, but there was still some food on Robert's plate. You sipped the wine slowly trying to not think about what he could be bringing back. You had thought you at least had until you reached Manitoba for things to begin to go oddly. Or better yet, for nothing to happen at all. A camping trip in Manitoba with an old friend would have been quite pleasant.
[ ]Decide it's best that you go and make sure the gem isn't doing anything to Robert
[ ]Keep waiting, many of these things are asleep, you don't want to cause something by making Robert drop it
