having managed to escape the working-class zombie miners, they encounter the bearded libertarian drag queen heinz rand of raiká, who leads a group of tinsel-dressed free market enthusiasts living on trading useless pre-war electronics for more useless pre-war electronics. alalia sees that heinz has the equipment that the postal service took from them and she trades it back by helping the group to get their useless electronics working again. having helped out heinz, he then tells them where to find echsenfriedl and even offers his daughter ayn as a guide to the location.