Lost Vegas.

"I got a good lead to follow." Nat says simply. "You ever heard of the city of Lost Vegas ?"

Druuna nodded, she'd heard stories of the fabulous lost city since she was a child. Since she had begun wandering she'd heard many more, but no two stories ever agreed on the details and she'd dismissed the whole notion as a myth.

"Good, then you'll know just how big this could be." Nat carried on blithely unaware of Druuna's thoughts. "Lost Vegas was a city of glittering riches built in the middle of a vast desert. At it's heart is said to be the palace of Caesar himself."

"Who was Caesar?" Druuna wondered out loud.

"Good question. That's what you're going to need for this job, an enquiring mind." Nat said. "I got me some research done on the coast where they still got books from before times. Caesar was a king who had a mighty empire in the before times."

"I thought Prezzident was king of all the land before times." Druuna said.

"Guess he wasn't. Them book readers said there was lots of kings back then." Nat argued. "King George, King Louie, King Elvis and King Martin Luther. Musta been a whole bunch of great cities."

Druuna's eyes were wide as she imagined all those kings each ruling a city and having hundreds of people to work for them. The before times must have had great wealth indeed.

"So you know where Lost Vegas is then?" Druuna asked.

"Reckon I might." Nat says stepping close to Druuna and lowering her voice. "A few months back I was exploring up in the mountains and I found an old scavenger more dead than alive. He had an arrow in him from a run in with some of the wild nates that live up there, but before he died he told me that he'd seen Lost Vegas with his own eyes and I drew me a map exactly as he told me he got there."

Druuna looked at Nat sceptically, the word of a dying old man hardly seemed this most reliable source of information.

"Yeah I doubted him too." Nat said, seeing Druuna's look. "But when he died I naturally went through his gear and I found this."

Nat opened up her rucksack and rummaged around before pulling something out. It was an big round ashtray, obviously from the before times but in perfect condition and worth several bottle caps to a collector. Written around the rim in golden lettering were the words 'CAESARS PALACE LAS VEGAS'.

After showing the artifact to Druuna Nat looked around as though worried that someone else may have seen and stuffed it back in her bag.

"If you're in I'll give you a twenty five percent split on what we find." Nat told Druuna and her hand reached up to brush Druuna's cheek. "Only condition is you share my bedroll at nights. You OK with that?"