”The boys did as they were told, both Ezekiel and Jimmy looking fearfully at their aunt, expecting her to say something very Waxerman-ish about it.�...��Son of a bitch!” Delilah suddenly shouted. “Ya don’t have to rip it off douchbag!” She pulled her hands away from her neck to swat her brother.Her brother yanked his fingers away as if she’d burned him.“Delilah! Control your tongue!” Mrs. Waxerman gasped.“That’s enough of that, Delilah,” Doctor Hooker reprimanded Delilah. “Your job is to let them do. She missed the short meetings that her fellow Harbingers used to have in the parking lot each morning. But in the wake of Nyssa, it was deemed too dangerous to do anything out in the open at Haven High, not with the Principal herself, Laura Bendon, still under the Darkness' sway.Diane looked around. There were some other faculty members drifting about the parking lot, looking critically at the other students as they filed towards the school's east entrance. She witnessed one break up a gaggle. I pondered where my next change would lay in her menu. There had to be something in her profile that controlled who’d she given her app to. Sophia was a conduit like Anael.I had to shift where that power flowed.If I understood things, the moment Seth lost his powers, everything he did would be reset. This room, those strange anime girls, more. Where did those anime girls come from? I shook my head, he had created them somehow. But so many of them... I had to know. I pulled out of Sophia menu. I. ”“Just so you know...” and I nuzzled the back of her head.“You really do love me, don’t you?”“I do,” I said. “But right now, there’s an awful lot of lust...”“I know. I’m not teasing you, baby,” she stated. “I really do like this. Just being held. Being important to you.”“Important? Try ‘essential’. You do understand, sweetness, that while my head and my heart are trying to be all high-level about us...”Giggle. “That thing’s got other plans?”“That thing doesn’t have a plan at all.”“But we’re not.