Lion, Tiger, Bear | 309 But of course, said Bernie mockingly. Hope you lot have flight insurance, said Bea. Schafer ignored them. Once at our home base in the mountains outside San Carlos de Bariloche, I want you three fellow occultists to work with me writing a new history of the world for the Reichsfuhrer. Ten volumes, a thousand pages each he has ordered; I have a large comfortable house in town already procured. We will make Bernie said: I knew it, I just knew it. Shafer snapped his fingers. He German aristocracy took over that program from the Prussians and the American side got involved with basic antigravity in the 1860s. In the Andes there was a large cavern complex for airships, and a deal was made by all in 1905, but thats all I know. Let us forget that colorful non sequitur and move on, shall we? Hmm? Now, of course some archeology work is waiting for us, not only in South Americaespecially Saqsaywaman in Perubut also the Yucatan with its untold amounts of undiscovered jungle cities and pyramids, a lifetime of work in itself. Then eventually we venture to Antarctica under the ice and mountains just inland of the Princess Astrid Coast. Neuschwabenland Bast 211. What?breathed Alice softly. Youre damn well joking said Bea. With the ruddy penguins and walruses? Shafer held up a palm. Youll be paid extremely well and treated as equals, as German citizens, as civilian Ahnenerbe employees, escorted daily as we all are, but free to roam the cafes of Buenos Aries, Lima, Sau Paulo. Your existing bank accounts and new salaries transferred to Banco Tornquist by Bormann and his financial underlings; I know the Deputy Fuhrer well, and theyve been quietly moving the Nazi Partys Berlin and Swiss gold reserves down there brick by brick. Hes a financial genius, its all done legally. German corporations and American banks are involved with the secret transfers, even Volkswagen, since Porsche plans to build tens of thousands of his Vblksautos in Brazil and Argentina someday. Grubby little Handyman, Ill attend to him, growled Bea. But Im afraid…even if the war concludes, you will not be allowed home to your respective countries, not for the first few years anyway under contract, and contracts are ironclad. Schafer removed an ancient scarab gold ring and slid it on Beas finger. Trust me, once exposed to the most interesting finds in the history of mankind you will not want to.