"What else could compliment such a fantastic gift? Batteries, of course!" He laughed. In fact, his gift had been anything but a pack of batteries. Listening to her talking about her interest in Vlad Dracula in the student bar about a week before they'd left, he'd formed a plan in his head. He consulted the bookshop and found what looked like a perfect present, a history of the Carpathians in a wooden-bound volume. The cover had been a woodcut map of the region. The book hadn't cost a fortune but he was priding himself on a good gift, and how well he'd hidden it until now. Mack would have had to have been<em>very</em>thorough in her application of dry ice to his bags to find it.