Elisa woke at sunset to shouting.

Groggy, she tried to reflexively sit up, and almost flipped herself out of the hammock. Just before she would have ended up flat on her face on the ground, she managed to twist a little and landed on her side instead.

She pushed herself up onto her feet, only to realize that the shouts were not only drawing more attention as people began running from the other buildings, but they were coming from the cottage.

Elisa ran, reaching habitually for her gun, only to remember that she didn't have it. It was still packed in her bags at the helicopter.

She burst through the door, and took in the scene as best she could.

Nayeli was holding her arm and growling, her eyes beginning to luminesce that fae green that let Elisa know that there was trouble about to start.

Liam was struggling with someone on the floor. Liam had managed to knock a man down, and was holding the intruder there by straddling the man's back. Both of Liam's hands were holding one of the man's wrists down with both of his hands, what appeared to be a hypodermic needle still clasped there.

Elisa rushed to Liam's side and helped to subdue the man. If Liam had taken the man down, there was a reason.

She added her weight to Liam's, and gripped the man's other wrist.

"What is going on here?" Elisa shouted.

"Get off of me," the man growled, though with his face still angled to the floor, it came out muffled.

"He was trying to do something to Nayeli," Liam snarled. "I think he took some of her blood."

Elisa's hands tightened around the struggling man's wrist.

"Liam," Elisa said, forcing a calm she didn't feel into her voice. "I need you to get me something to bind this guy's wrists. Rope or something. Then I need you to go find Dingo." She turned to the sea of shocked and curious faces at the door. "Can any of you speak English?" Elisa called out.

There was a general shuffling amongst them, when a small female came through.

"I can," the woman said. "What do you need?"

Gods bless her for not asking a million questions, and immediately offering help.

"This man just tried to assault my daughter," Elisa snarled. "I need rope, twine, anything that you have."

The woman blinked a few times, but nodded. She turned to the door and translated the information to the others.

"Nayeli," Elisa called, looking to her daughter. "Are you hurt?"

Nayeli snarled at the man, not looking away from him, and shook her head.

"Ellie?" Liam called out, cautiously approaching his sister. He held his hands out in a gesture of peace, "Can I see?"

Nayeli hesitated, the green tint fading from her eyes as she turned to look at Liam. Slowly, she rotated her arm, showing the red and already bruised mark that had been left there.

As Liam looked Nayeli over, the tribe woman came running with a length of twine in her hands.

Elisa realized then that she had a problem. She couldn't hold the man's wrists, keep him subdued, and bind his wrists at the same time.

There was a roaring sound from outside, and it was then that Elisa realized that the sun had fully set, and the Australian clan had awakened.

… And this was going to be their first impression of the Americans.

Great. Just great.

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Dingo was just handing out the last of the bags and about to start looking for the sat phone when the sun fully retreated from the sky.

The helicopter gave a violent shudder as the two gargoyles inside came to life.

"Elisa?" A familiar voice called, and Dingo sighed. He'd had a feeling Goliath was the father of Elisa's very visibly half gargoyle daughter, and the panic from the large Manhattan clan leader's voice only verified it.

Dingo grabbed the strap of the compact sat phone case and dragged it with him as he slowly backed out of the carefully dug out area.

Standing, he slung the strap over one shoulder and stood to greet Goliath.

"Oy," he called out as the two males jumped out from inside the helicopter.

Goliath whirled, arm raised as if ready to strike, only to freeze and lower his arm slowly. "Dingo?" he asked.

"Got it in one," he said with a sardonic grin.

"Have you seen…"

"Elisa and the children are fine," he said, interrupting Goliath. "Fox too. They're just on the other side of the Rock," he said, pointing in the direction of the red rocks. "There is an encampment there where they are all resting. They were asleep when we left."

"Then they are well," Goliath said softly.

"Yes," Dingo said.

"We should go to them," the male unknown to Dingo said.

Goliath nodded his agreement.

"There aren't many places to get high enough to catch the wind here," Dingo pointed out. "The highest point is the Rock, and by the time you reach it on foot, we could already have you at the camp. Come," Dingo said, motioning them to follow. "We brought the truck so that you would be able to ride with us comfortably."

The two males fell into step behind him.