Lixi smiled and moved her feet back off the bench to leave room for Martin to sit back down if he chose and gave him the cliff notes version of her plan, still giving the little note book most of her attention. Jason, meanwhile, had gotten up and wandered out. He returned a few minutes later with a huge roll of industrial contractor strength trash bags and began wrapping the lap top bag up in several layers of them, taping each layer off with some duct tape before proceeding to the next. By the time he was done, the package he'd constructed looked more like a big black marshmallow than an electronics bag. He then stuffed the whole thing into a large duffel he'd drug back with him.

"What?" he snipped at the curious look Lixi gave him. "Our adventures tend to be less than tech friendly. I know you're from before the dark ages and all, but even you should know that computers no likey water." He drew the last bit out in a slow childish way that Lixi assumed was meant to insult her.

"Thank you for that Mr. Wizard." The kid was beginning to try even her patience, which was hard to do. "Safe to assume you're on board then?"

"I just want to get Sophia back. Whatever it takes."

Lixi smiled a rather sinister smile. She contemplated how wicked it would be of her to ask the Thelemites to open the portal to wherever Arminos had taken her, then tell Jason to go find her himself. No matter how tempting the thought was right now, she'd never condemn the poor kid like that.

"Well then, I guess we can head out whenever everyone is ready."