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enough to true that her body language was right
for it. "I bought some land in Nevada and registered a territory. Sparks,
in case it ever comes up or you want to visit. I'm planning to head out
tomorrow and get things set up. One of the places has a little house and the
building codes there are pretty lax, so I can set up anything I want, for the
most part, without having to bribe too many people. You get the idea, I'm an
adult now, and need to have my own place." She'd said it often enough,
though now her sister looked...
Scared.
"Is... that a good idea? The
Second Crucible is coming and you might..." She stopped and looked around,
then leaned in close and whispered, as if that would keep anyone from listening
in to them. "You might need my help. I don't know what's coming,
but..."
Keeley nodded, which was an
abstract thing at the moment. She didn't let herself think however, putting up
every shield against mind reading she knew, and making up a new one on the fly,
surprising herself. It was just a variation, but by holding her focus on the
mental image of the cuneiform word for block, and wrapping it around her entire
being in several dimensions, she managed to get it to work, with only a tiny
bit of power being added.
Then she whispered back.
"Well, I have to broker a
treaty between three Greater Demons that have gotten themselves into a mess.
The Vile, The Cartographer and The Lover. It probably won't work, and it seems
that they've been going at it for a long time. I get about a week on that one.
Before they have instructions to seek me out for it, that is. It takes as long
as it does to get it done. So no time limit or anything like that. You however,
get to go and deal with some big deal in Europe. So, it won't matter if
I'm here or not. We probably didn't even have to send everyone away. Not that
we won't be busy." So that, she decided, made uprooting all their people
all right, didn't it? She didn't give voice to that, being too sarcastic by
far, since she understood what was really going on there.
Zack had decided the point for
them, and lacking information, given that Tarsus had flat out lied to him on
several points, he'd driven them all toward doing the most protective thing he
could. It would have been a bit too much, if it was really just the Second
Crucible. Given the idea that she was really doing something else, a thing so
stupid that even trying it might just mean she was insane herself, it was
actually not that bad of a plan. So whining about it was... Well, probably
expected, but ultimately both a waste of time and something that would make her
look foolish later. Whining always did, even if you were right. No one
remembered that part later, just the annoyance of the moment.
So, she felt a bit conflicted
which she showed by smiling and crossing her eyes at her sister, who just
seemed a little baffled, if only for the briefest of moments.
"He told you all that? How
certain are you that he isn't just lying?" Darla said that as if the idea
wouldn't have occurred to Keeley for some reason, which showed an extreme lack
of faith. Enough so that it earned the other girl a bit of a glare.
" Of course he was
lying. About a lot of things. Most of it was the truth however, I'm willing to
bet. For instance, he really is sending you off to Europe to fix a problem for
him. As for what I'm doing... Well, you know how that one goes. He's decided
that I'm the new special snowflake Demon and he's going to keep spanking me
until I fall into line for him. I think it's just a base level conflict that
we're going to have. That said, he clearly isn't planning to really get me
killed, or I wouldn't have walked away earlier today."
Darla moved into the room like
she owned it, since that was the way she always did everything, and took a seat
on the sofa, lowering herself carefully enough that the springs inside didn't
protest. Keeley did something similar next to her, if not as well. A soft
creaking noise came from
for it. "I bought some land in Nevada and registered a territory. Sparks,
in case it ever comes up or you want to visit. I'm planning to head out
tomorrow and get things set up. One of the places has a little house and the
building codes there are pretty lax, so I can set up anything I want, for the
most part, without having to bribe too many people. You get the idea, I'm an
adult now, and need to have my own place." She'd said it often enough,
though now her sister looked...
Scared.
"Is... that a good idea? The
Second Crucible is coming and you might..." She stopped and looked around,
then leaned in close and whispered, as if that would keep anyone from listening
in to them. "You might need my help. I don't know what's coming,
but..."
Keeley nodded, which was an
abstract thing at the moment. She didn't let herself think however, putting up
every shield against mind reading she knew, and making up a new one on the fly,
surprising herself. It was just a variation, but by holding her focus on the
mental image of the cuneiform word for block, and wrapping it around her entire
being in several dimensions, she managed to get it to work, with only a tiny
bit of power being added.
Then she whispered back.
"Well, I have to broker a
treaty between three Greater Demons that have gotten themselves into a mess.
The Vile, The Cartographer and The Lover. It probably won't work, and it seems
that they've been going at it for a long time. I get about a week on that one.
Before they have instructions to seek me out for it, that is. It takes as long
as it does to get it done. So no time limit or anything like that. You however,
get to go and deal with some big deal in Europe. So, it won't matter if
I'm here or not. We probably didn't even have to send everyone away. Not that
we won't be busy." So that, she decided, made uprooting all their people
all right, didn't it? She didn't give voice to that, being too sarcastic by
far, since she understood what was really going on there.
Zack had decided the point for
them, and lacking information, given that Tarsus had flat out lied to him on
several points, he'd driven them all toward doing the most protective thing he
could. It would have been a bit too much, if it was really just the Second
Crucible. Given the idea that she was really doing something else, a thing so
stupid that even trying it might just mean she was insane herself, it was
actually not that bad of a plan. So whining about it was... Well, probably
expected, but ultimately both a waste of time and something that would make her
look foolish later. Whining always did, even if you were right. No one
remembered that part later, just the annoyance of the moment.
So, she felt a bit conflicted
which she showed by smiling and crossing her eyes at her sister, who just
seemed a little baffled, if only for the briefest of moments.
"He told you all that? How
certain are you that he isn't just lying?" Darla said that as if the idea
wouldn't have occurred to Keeley for some reason, which showed an extreme lack
of faith. Enough so that it earned the other girl a bit of a glare.
" Of course he was
lying. About a lot of things. Most of it was the truth however, I'm willing to
bet. For instance, he really is sending you off to Europe to fix a problem for
him. As for what I'm doing... Well, you know how that one goes. He's decided
that I'm the new special snowflake Demon and he's going to keep spanking me
until I fall into line for him. I think it's just a base level conflict that
we're going to have. That said, he clearly isn't planning to really get me
killed, or I wouldn't have walked away earlier today."
Darla moved into the room like
she owned it, since that was the way she always did everything, and took a seat
on the sofa, lowering herself carefully enough that the springs inside didn't
protest. Keeley did something similar next to her, if not as well. A soft
creaking noise came from
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