Mary: Stuck Down Under

We made it out of the hotel, and they hadn't yet frozen all of Josh's accounts because he managed to get a few thousand in cash and another quarter of a million in bearer bonds. There's a good chance that that might be all we can withdraw out of all the money Leopold left him, at least for now.

Better not to push it at this point, I think, because money is not our top priority at the moment. Josh and I need to get to Japan, and without passports that's going to be impossible. We'd love to find a forger here in Australia, but going in without any contacts would be problematic at best. We've used up the raw materials Leopold gave us just to make these last fake identities, so for the moment we're stuck in-country.

I will say, though, that of all places to be trapped, we could do a lot worse than the city of Adelaide. It's right on the ocean, beautiful and as a big plus for us it has a large immigrant population so Josh and I don't stick out too much.

Sooner or later, though, we're going to have to present some I.D. Ideas, anyone?