Four for the Road
12th of January 2007 A.D.
Harry is the first to break the silence: "Maybe there'll be work for a Starborn keeping the thing under Death Valley sleeping. I hope not," he adds fervently, the fervour soon turned to something else, no less sincere, but darker. "Either way I'll behaving words with Sandra Marling about her part on Splattercon."
"I'll try to leave her unsplattered for you, no promises though," you answer, knowing your own expression is likely just as grim
For her part Tiffany looks between you with those far-seeing eyes and tsks. "I'd better come along then to give talking a chance with those that can be reasoned with."
"Hey, I talk to people!" you protest as on the screen Dorothy is just about to melt the Wicked Witch. "I made a deal with Winter, with Summer, with the Archive and with Monoc."
"True true, but this time and place sometimes requires a less imperious touch—" she glances at Harry and adds— "A less incandescent one as well."
Lydia pays no mind to the byplay, her pale face set in sombre lines, eyes half-lidded in thought. It's almost enough to make one forget she's barely old enough to drive. "I'll come too, where there are servants of the Old Ones there is killing and the defilement of the dead. Besides I would learn more of these cults who claim to worship the gods of the Black Earth Land." The last words are clearly translated from some other tongue. She hesitates a moment. "My mother was of that land and that people. I hope to learn more of both in going."
How much had Arwan told his daughter about her mysterious mother, you wonder. Lydia does not talk about her normally.
Alas the next hour or so after you part from the others it is another mother that is at the forefront of your thoughts, your own.
"You are going to Vegas? You are going to Vegas with a sixteen year old girl, an incarnation of a Fallen Angel and
Harry Dresden?" her tone does not rise as she speaks, it falls to a dangerous near whisper.
Another time, a younger and more foolish Molly Carpenter might have pointed out that she implied Harry was somehow a worse influence than Tiffany, but you've been through this before. Her heart's not in it... no, better to say her heart is in it and her head is not, she knows you are gathering power, experience, sword and shield against the foe.
She just wants reassurance that you won't do anything too dangerous and so that's what you give her, perhaps a lie, hopefully not.
***
13th of January 2007 A.D.
On the next day a Friday after school everyone is ready to make the journey, not by plane, not even by the Ways, but into Sanctuary and hence out once you had tread the path of many rivers into the Colorado, technically down the Grand Canyon, not that you see it and into Lake Mead.
Not how I expected to see Hoover Dam either, you think with mind of water. As for your destination it is far less grand, the Las Vegas Wash, what is politely referred to an an 'urban river' fed by urban runoff, shallow ground water, reclaimed water used on parks and golf courses, and stormwater. One could ride it all the way to the sewage treatment plant, but character aside, you do not think Sanndra would be there.
Having infiltrated the Las Vegas sewage system where do you come out to open the path back to Sanctuary so that the others may join you?
[] Henderson, stretching out to the southeast, attempting since the 1950s to be everything that the rest of Vegas is not—a place built on good civic values that boasts a much more diverse economy and support for local arts and culture.
[] Las Vegas proper, the governmental seat for the region and containing older casinos that most people remember affectionately from mobster movies
[] North Las Vegas puttering along quietly, composed of industrial parks and housing developments that now stand empty, its fate connected to that of Nellis Air Force Base.
[] Paradise, a place poorly named for the most part it is the Vegas of most people's dreams and imagination, home of the Strip, clubs and casinos aplenty some of which deal in more than coin.
OOC: If you guys want to get specific you can wrote in what kind of water basin you want to come out into. 
