Lexi stared at Neo, opened mouthed before she blurted out,<br/><br/>“Oh My Fuckin God”<br/><br/>She rolled her eyes at him and rattled the atlas.<br/>“Never fuckin mind. I will give this a try. Fuck my life.”<br/><br/>Lexi stormed to the back room and slammed the door to the storeroom where the treasure box sat empty on the table. She gently removed it before spreading out the atlas of North America. Taking some deep cleansing breaths, the way the book had instructed. She chanted,<br/><br/>“Bless and protect, Guide and guard me from all harm. Bring me to the object of my desire and erase all alarm.”<br/>This she said, softly and held the crystal suspended over the map. At first, Lexi thought her own nervous energy was making the chain move back and forth, but soon, it took on a life of its own and whirled around and around. Lexi felt herself drawn in, and down toward the map, suddenly with no warning, the stone leaped from her hand and glued itself close to the shoreline a little north of Seattle. Before she could stand and call the others, a cold wind began to blow in the room.<br/><br/>The lightbulb that hung suspended from a chain in the ceiling exploded, raining glass shards down on her head. The room was plunged into deep darkness and Lexi screamed. The door rattled and some one pounded it on it with a fist. Lexi felt as if two thumbs were being pressed into her eye sockets and she fought to esape. Sid called out to her to stop fuckin around and open the damn door. Lexi honed in on Yukina’s worried voice begging her to open the door.<br/><br/>“I know that skull is close by,” she whispered to whoever or whatever was in the room. “Blinding me won’t buy you any time. If I don’t find you, one of the others will. Give it up now and go free but keep fuckin with us and you will find yourself in some eternal abyss.” She was good and mad now, knowing that she was on the trail of the skull and that somehow, she would be part of the team to bring down this reign of terror.”