The mystery continues

 MIDWINTER MINI-MYSTERY PART TWO

Clearly the diamond is the most valuable object on the table....right?  (See the link below)

Except ....the table is in an abandoned shack in part of a desert  where you have been stranded and wandering for days.  Your food and wate supply ran completely out sometime over two days ago or at least you think it was a couple days  as things are  getting a little fuzzy from what you imagine. To be heat stroke or maybe just plain dehydration.   And Except...

You are pretty sure that earlier today you heard the distant hum of a plane motor and you wished desperately you hadn’t wasted your signal flares  trying to get the attention of a nomad on a camel that turned out  just to be a misshapen cactus with a tumbleweed clinging to it. So ,,, that mirror  could come in handy as  it reflects sunlight and lord knows you have plenty of that and that shining mirror can be seen from the sky or for miles in the fairly flat desert.   Now the water or the mirror seem like fairly wise choices...except

The piece of paper seems to have something written on it  in Spanish that you can roughly  translate as “map  out of desert on other side... Now you can’t read Spanish but you can read a map and know that the place you stand  can’t be more than a day or so from the edge of the desert because the desert isn’t more than four walking days  in area from the center in any direction and you have been walking  for  at least two days without seeing  anything that you have seen before.   

So there you have it.   

Water will keep you alive and give you a couple more days to go on.  You. Could take the diamond and your chances of making it out of the sand  before you die of thirst and be a rich traveler.  The map could provide  you the right path out and if you make it couldn’t you follow the map back for the diamond?  Oh and  the mirror  could get you rescued and flown to safety in a matter of minutes.   

So which of these is most valuable;e now?  Before you knew the circumstances was. The diamond clearly the most valuable and could it become the most valuable again?   Now you can only take one  object and use it, however, which of the objects would be your second choice and which do you think you might regret not taking the most or the fastest?   

What is the lesson to be learned so fat?  

More tomorrow

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