Chapter 27:

-Journey into the North-

As arranged, the three, Michael Selene and Zed, set off on a long journey into the cold north. Zed sat on the passenger seat, while Michael sat on the backseat and his condition became worse from hour at time. Selene drove the whole day through and also night, without to keep it in mind a single time, to pull over. Zed made sure from time to time whether Michael still was responsive. Maybe after eight hours driving, Michael fell asleep.

"We have to hurry up!"

"I already drive as fast as possibly and soon, I run out of gas."

"What if all is a sheer waste of time and he won't survive it so or so, then what?"

"Then, he died trying to rescue us and stop now to talk such shit, he will make it."

It was really difficult to lead a conversation with Selene. She made it short and logical, no any long trappings-speak. They drove along the whole Californian coast and then along the Rocky Mountains and further along the mountain range until into the north of Canada.Then after days and small rests about to fill up gas, they finally reached the borders of Alaska, but they hadn't any idea what their aim was. They stopped in a remote village about to rest somewhat and to eat. Zed needed urgently fresh meat, like also Selene, that looked totally exhausts, after all nonstop driving, needed fresh blood. They weren't choosy and lived from powerful cows in this night.

"Selene, should I take over the driving for the rest of the way? You need rest."

"I don't say no. thank you."

"You must spare your strengths. As it seems, you still can't get used it to the sun."

"As I should if I lived for centuries in darkness. But at least I have to fear somewhat less."

"That's true. We should awake Michael somehow, to find out more about this location... if he knows it at all."

"Probably we must do this."

Selene opened the back door and sat down beside Michael and shook him gently, but he didn't respond. She repeated it, but somewhat more strongly and she whispered his name. Slowly his eyelids flickered and then, his eyes opened easily. A stone fell from Selene's heart. He was still alive.

"Michael, we're somewhere a few miles over the Alaska-borders. Do you know where we have to go?"

"Snow...water...mountains." he whispered with weaker voice, but he tried to specify himself. "In the north."

"Shhh... spare you. We will already find the location somehow." she gave him a long-lasting and tender kiss and caressed his face, which had lost all color...only white and blue.Possibly, it was also the biting cold in the north here. Since Michael felt again like a human being, so he felt also the cold. They organized a warm quilt in order to keep him warm.

"Do you have an idea, where such locations exist, Zed?"

"I was bad in geography, sorry. Why don't we ask the people?"

"Then it's you, who's asking."

Zed grinned ironically. Good that they had a good relationship and had not lived in the past otherwise, he had experienced the whip and he hadn't expected it furthermore differently. Selene was too strikingly pale. Therefore he went to the next nearby located restaurant and asked about it. He pretended to be a tourist, that wanted to experience only some arctic adventures and he was successful. He thanked in a friendly way and went back to the black jaguar.

"And?"

"The arctic prairies, but they warned me from blizzards...also in this time of season. The mountains there are almost not to be climbed. The slopes are steeply and the rocks are slippery. But at last, they warned me of gravel avalanches."

"Sound's like a bull's eye. Come on let's go." and they sat into the car again and continued their journey.