While Volstagg let the children have some fun by lending them his and his men's mounts.
Alvin found an open patch of ground and opened a Space Gate...
On the other side of the Space Gate was a warehouse area at the huge construction site in Hell's Kitchen Dock District...
Raymond, who had been prepared well in advance, was waiting there. Hundreds of container trucks stood by.
Always impeccably dressed, Raymond walked over the moment the Space Gate opened...
After feeling the discomfort caused by the 2.5-times gravity, Old Viper approached Alvin with a somewhat sour expression and said, "I didn't expect the environment here to be so harsh..."
As he spoke, Raymond gestured to the convoy behind him. "It's all the stuff you asked for.
"1,300 tons of salt. The rest is various seasonings, along with some supplies for the Avengers."
Alvin looked happily at the convoy stretching out of sight on the other side of the Space Gate. He grinned, pulled a box of cigars from Raymond's pocket, and said, "You don't look too good. Was all that Dragon Bone Wine for nothing?"
Raymond waved a hand, brushing aside Alvin's jab at him. He craned his neck to glance at the nearby stone forest, then said, "That Ronan you mentioned to me before is dead...
"I think it's time for you to come back!
"Those Night Dragons you brought back have been driving Bruto and the others crazy...
"Old William went to watch a strip show and got dragged outside and beaten up by a Night Dragon!
"If you don't come back soon, those gangsters are going to start a war with the Night Dragons..."
As he spoke, the worldly-wise Raymond shook his head in disbelief. "I can't imagine what idiot talked those Night Dragons into trying to