Iron Raven, just before leaving Cracked Jack's, reconsidered bringing his van, thinking back to what Snake, the sleuth sprite he'd compiled, had shown him of the the Phoenix Inn.
It looked to be a pretty snazzy place and would likely have some pretty heavy security of its own and didn't look like a place that would like bad publicity. Kind of a catch 22 while it might be dangerous to walk in there without any drones going in with drones was going to be difficult without hacking into the hotels security. which if they catered to "whales" on occasion was going to be high.
Iron Raven repacked his bags just taking clothes, necessities, and his industrial tool kit / welder. He put these bags in his car and put the ferrets and the dragonfly into the multilauncher in the van.
Getting into his car he called one of the machine sprites to him. A small sprite in the shape of a bio-mechanical ferret coalesced seemingly from nowhere and seemed to crawl out from his shirt and onto his shoulder, and while the sprite wasn't there the mischievous little thing had no compunction about sending a bit of biofeedback sending shivers up Iron Ravens back.
"Ferret, I'm going need you to do something very important for me," Ferret cocked its head to the side and made a chittering noise.
The sprites weren't animals and definitely could communicate but often used only body language or pictures to communicate. Iron raven thought it likely that they did this to amuse him, though he never had found out exactly why.
"I need you to stay with the van and watch it while I meet in the inn, now Ferret this part is important," he paused and then continued on with emphasis on his words," I know its going to be boring but I need you to be careful and to watch out because I could be going into allot of danger, do you understand?"
The sprite raised up onto hits hind leg on Iron Raven's shoulder got a solemn look on its face and put its miniscule hand over it supposed heart, holding the pose for a brief moment then broke into small snickering. Expecting any sprite he compiled to be 100% on task and serious was something Raven had given up on years ago.
"Oh and feel free to play with the inside image screens but please don't play with the chameleon coat or the outside image screens."
The sprite gave him a brief nod and ran down him and over to the van seeming to jump into it.
With that done Raven Linked up with both his vehicles and drove towards the inn. As he got close to the Inn he sent to Ferret, "Make sure you move every couple of hours just keep within 5 minutes of the Phoenix Inn and if I get some free time we can play some games, if you've been good."
After parting with Ferret and his van he drove to the inn and checked in.
