Trinity: Taking The Silk Road

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Nathan hears some vaguely alarming things from old friends in Kazakhstan about a central training school for mutants. Deciding that an investigation is in order, he also decides that he and Angelo need some company on this trip. His first stop is the school's resident expert in nomadic peoples.

( 'Wanda, have you ever been to Kazakhstan?' 'Once. It involved a lot of drinking, two badly drawn maps, one guide who was partially blind and, I think, on drugs.'' )

Afterwards, he checks with his loyal minion to make sure that Angelo is indeed up for another trip to Central Asia. Angelo is of course ready and willing. Nathan also takes the opportunity to give him a raise and tell him how pleased he is with the job Angelo's doing.

( Fact-finding, again. Have you got suitable cold weather gear? )

Arranging things with the third person he wants to take along requires making another stop first. Plans of a sort are discussed.

( Alison, can I borrow your boyfriend? )

Last stop, and fortunately, Haroun is intrigued enough by the concept of visiting a hitherto unvisited-by-him mostly-Muslim nation not to detect that Nathan has something up his sleeve.

( Do they speak Arabic? )