Once the breaks were finished and the garbage was packed into a compacting bin at the front of the bus, the occupants slowly began to fall asleep.
None of them had slept well at all the night before, so they were soon out cold, except a few guards, Wolfe and Roger Noxus, who was used to pulling all night shifts back in the city since his job with the Family was mostly cleaning up issues created by others.
Wolfe knew that the family had taught all Elders the basic method for expanding their mana focus, which would no longer be at its limit now that Wolfe had helped him out a little, but he didn't know any spells except the two Wolfe had shown him last night.
"Did you manage to learn them?" Wolfe signalled using the bike courier standard hand signals, commonly known as sign language.
