The three vampires returned heavily laden. Micah dumped a giant fruit at Katelina's feet and offered her a jagged folding knife. "No idea if it's any good, but I found it on the way back and thought what the fuck."
Verchiel and Loren sorted through several wrinkled plastic bags to display their treasures. Among the contents were bottled water, energy bars, some bags of chips, a large paper bag of something that looked like jerky, two glass bottles with no labels that Verchiel called "palm wine", a couple cans of soda, a bag of rice, a beat up metal pan whose handle was gone, two scuffed plastic bowls, and several rolls of toilet paper.
"They were happy to trade," Verchiel said with a grin.
Loren handed Micah what looked like a Bowie knife in a sheath, and paused to play with a second
