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After a while we went back down to rejoin the others. It was getting dark. We found them and we all went inside another structure. This one was a little hut built right over the hot stream. It was a little sauna, and you could put your feet in the warm water. You had to duck down and just about crawl to get into it. Very womblike. Very nice and wooden and dark and glowing and close. We sat there for a while, then eventually decided to get our clothes on and leave. I have to say I have NEVER felt so relaxed as I did sitting there in the back seat of that square old wide American car, letting someone else drive, being dry and warm and plump and rosy in my clothes in the car with the heater and some music going, and the witches and Helena all around me, and rolling away across that wide impossible plain at night under a clear moon sky.