Free Demon Bait (Keeley Thomson) by P.S. Power

underneath her, which given the fact that she weighed
less than the other girl by about forty pounds probably meant she was being
sloppy about that sort of thing.
    Not that Darla was fat, since that
wasn't the case by any means. She was, if anything, just about perfect. The
difference in size was all due to Keeley not eating enough and looking anorexic
at the moment. Still . Most people didn't mind, but she really needed to
gain some body mass, if she could pull it off.
    Tapping Darla on the leg, she
stood again, suddenly.
    "Hey, let's go and buy out
some fast food places? I need to be better about eating." This came with a
poke at her hard abs, which didn't show through the shirt she wore, but were pretty
close to doing that. Girls weren't supposed to have a six pack. Not unless they
were into competitive bodybuilding. It wasn't a look that she wanted for
herself at the moment, but would also take eating more, since she lacked about
sixty or seventy pounds for that to look real, too.
    "Good plan. So,
Tarsus?" They moved out to Darla's car going the long way through the
garage, since the other girl was covertly running a search pattern, not being
certain that her little sis was actually herself. That made sense, given that
she rarely enough volunteered to eat like that. It was just that she didn't
know what else to do to get ready
    Well, there was some research to
be done, but she'd want to be alone for most of that. The four she was supposed
to be going after... Those were the ones she needed to be careful about. She
could, technically ask for help with the real Crucible to come, but that would
be cheating. Not that Greater Demons wouldn't do that. Really, she probably
needed to find a way to use that information to her advantage, didn't she?
    That got her to go still as Darla
stopped and touched Misty on the side, since the beat up looking plum and
primer beast sat in the garage.
    "What happened? She smells
like chemicals." That was Darla being polite, most likely, not running off
exactly what had happened. She was The Technician after all.
    That meant that after a moment of
examination, she could probably have rebuilt the smoke bomb that had been used
exactly, and pinpoint the location it had been planted as well. Possibly even
getting that no one Human would have put it where it was, under the vehicle. Or
at least that they would have had to be tiny to make it happen without massive
lifts. So basically Maria Gonzales from school might have done it, if she was
into explosives like that. Or pranks.
    It was humorous, since Darla
didn't mention any of that, just waiting for Keeley to explain. It was funny
though, thinking about their tiny mutual friend doing things like that.
    "Quince. He planted a smoke
bomb on her earlier to try and see who'd react incorrectly. The interesting
part there is that he knows a Greater Demon is involved, or thinks that's the
case, but he hasn't worked out that it might be you. Honestly, he just went
after my car because he thinks of me as high profile, but clearly
innocent." She grinned and then kept walking, since they had a fast food
mission to see about. "Which I am . He seems to think it's someone
on the school staff, since they'd be in a position of power there. Of course he
missed the other likely candidates, like the Student Body President, or the Captain of the Cheerleading Squad."
    The other girl followed along
then, using the side door just after Keels did, and jogging forward to get into
her unnamed little sports car. It was a convertible, and not the one that she'd
used for the last few months, but it was fitting now, given the weather and her
recent graduation. It was the sort of thing that rich girls like her had,
wasn't it? A gift from her grandmother, to support her in keeping good grades.
Not that Darla didn't pull a straight B average in every class she took. On
purpose.
    Then, she was also running her
own multi-national corporation at the same time, and was her own grandmother,