The time is 2AM. S-Minus 3:45 until the Daystar
Google Maps. It's a wonderful thing. Southeast down 99, the Kindred home in on the address. It's nearly 2am, just early enough that they don't have to fight end-of-the-club-night traffic. Non descript vehicles, driven reasonably, and they don't even merit a second look from the various traffic police they pass.
It's a good thing they're undead. The rhythmic thumping of tires crossing freeway pavement seams has put many a Kine to sleep at this hour. Garish yellow lights turn the freeway into the storied Yellow Brick Road. What these Unconquered seek, though, is not a hear, a brain, courage, or even a means home.
They're trying to recover the Torpid Priscus of the Haunt Clan.
Two AM breaks as they come up on their exit. Calvine Road. They have less than four hours until the daystar rises.
With four hours to to go, a small detail rears it's head.
West on Calvine Road, and a right on Center will take them straight into the heart of South Sacramento. This won't be a fringe incursion. This will be trespassing into the Rack of Regent Roxie Hart.