An Agreement with the Incompetents (?) T he next few hours were relatively peaceful as everyone worked together to clean up the valley. Neil and his party were in the lodge scrubbing the floorboards like their lives depended on it, while all the others went around and gathered up the corpses of their former comrades. Nobody judged others for looting them either. All the equipment was sacked and, to Jake’s surprise, offered in a big pile to him and Miranda without any prompt—showing once more why both Donald and Abby had pretty good gear for their level. They had hoarded everything. Jake, of course, didn’t care for it and told Miranda to handle that too. Damn, it felt good just to delegate all his responsibilities away. He also found time to drag Hank to the side and hand him the stuff

