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“With that distance you will need Spirits to help you. We will
need Zotz on Vivia at Dómpu City. Then we’ll need Mahucutah to
cover the Portal door here at Mesa Verde, and I will go with you
to Los Lunas. That works out the logistics. I’ll need to open the
Portal door back open again and summon Mahucutah. He’ll only
need to be out-of-pocket at Vivia for a little while. How fast can
we drive to Los Lunas, the town where the horses are being held
in the corrals?”
“It will take up to about ten hours, plus any time we take for
the horses to rest,” Jonathan told the crew.
“That’s two shifts of drivers,” Tital surmised.
“Can we get there in time?” Fernándo asked in a concerned
voice.
“We’ll have to leave as soon as Mahucutah arrives, so pack
up and get ready to leave,” Tital ordered the crew.
Ek Chuah reopened the Portal door and summoned
Mahucutah from Vivia, within minutes out walked a regal looking
Mahucutah. He was wearing a full Maya ceremonial dress. He
had on a huge headdress that made him appear over two meters,
fifty centimeters in height. The crew almost didn’t recognize him
dressed up that way.
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