She couldn't remain as a human, could she? How was I going to explain a naked woman acting like a cat?And where was Demie? She had been gone for the b...etter part of a week, part of the reason Kate's spells had started failing, requiring her to magic me up a replacement lover.---Demie was, in actuality, out of town. She stepped off her bus and scanned the street numbers, ignoring how the passersby stared at her.Demie was still wearing her preferred clothing of 60's hip jeans and a tight leather. We almost always ended up with no clear winner, as there was no coordination on the ground, and the high ground of the treehouse was easily defended. No one ever seemed to realize that the treehouse could be taken by just waiting until they ran out of ammunition.Eddie always fought from the treehouse, while I was sometimes there and other times on the ground. Cindy would play with us boys as well. She would always stay in the treehouse with Eddie. The two seemed to get along together, much. At the last second Toni had backed out, but by then the kids were all excited about going to the movie so Candy went ahead and went with Jimmy. I told her again I didn't like it and that I didn't trust Jimmy. Candy again told me that I had nothing to worry about.Then one Sunday Candy and I got into an argument. We had planned a picnic and I got a call and had to go into work. I told Candy that I had to cancel on the picnic and she said she would get Toni to go with her and the kids. Toni told. They were dropped on the flat roof of a building near the center of the city where the deed took place. The murder weapon had been a large car-bomb and a number of people had been killed or injured. Many of the injured had later died, and this made it difficult to pin down all of the effects of canceling out the assassination.A number of people had been involved in assembling the bomb, and it had been done over a period of 11 days, so just eliminating one or two people would not have stopped.