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Jordan and Ai-Ling did, eventually, find a workable motor vehicle; a dark green Sedan car that must have been conveniently flashed in recently, from its relative newness and working condition. They strapped Jordan's new push bike to the trunk and headed towards Kansas.

Ai-ling hasn't turned out to be a natural driver. The car's workings are counter-inuitive to her and she needs things explaining a post-industrial person would take for granted.

She is, however, dedicated to learning, and there's not a lot more to expect from a student, so she's soon capable at least of keeping them moving along an empty desert road.

Northern Arkansas - a few days ago.

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Spring is very clearly on its way, and this has given the Firebender known as Zheng an enhanced energy as he pushes Horsey forward through the new flowers appearing in the grass.He and Mai discovered that the coast was much more dangerous, so they've stuck to an inland route, still heading west at a a pace limited by danger and Mai's now usable leg.

There are blossoms in some of the trees ad the sun is bright despite the windchill.

"Sometimes this world isn't so terrible," he observes.

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It's been. . . a long time. Jesse is mortal enough to think of a year as a long time, although it does seem to have passed faster than she remembers time doing before. Whether that's because when your days are as empty as hers are sometimes time passes faster, or because for a vampire time honestly does seem to be fleeting, she isn't really sure. It's not important, either.

Boredom, however, is. That's why she's pulling up outside the Kansas farm in an inexplicably shiny black convertible XKR - with the top down, of course. How she knows the farm is there - well. She picks things up. She's not telepathic to the same extent as some she knows, but she gets flashes sometimes. Enough to know that there's a group of people who are trying to make something out of the mess they've all been landed in, in any case.

She could have flown in. But what's the point of advertising what you are from the very first moment? It doesn't achieve anythng other than giving people a reason to treat you as a monster from the first moment, and that - well. It hurts. She doesn't thik she'll ever get used to it. So instead, she flew as far as the border, picked up a car (don't ask how), and drove in. She'd forgotten how much fun it could be to hurtle along a road at high speed, wind trying to stnatch the breath out of her lungs, music playing at full volume and still only just audible even to her vampire ears over the rush of air.

The car pulls into the farm - with no screeching of tires to announce it's arrival, but the music is probably loud enough to do it quite competantly - and Jesse slides her sunglasses down her nose and eyes the area thoughtfully. So. Is there anyone around or does she have to go looking?