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"Well, I do have soood news!" I shouted "I knoe can track downin the hallway?" Sinclair asked, looking up froht

"So Jessica stays in the loop, duh," I replied "Anyway, I thought we could track -lost sister down and ask her not to take over the world! Okay? I ht?!?"

Marc rubbed his ear "How do you want to start?"

"Well, I know she was born right here in the Cities, on June 6, 1986!"

"Six six eighty-six?" Tina asked "That&039;s interesting"

"It&039;s lame, is what it is! What, we&039;re in The Oirls born to the Ant on six six eighty-six, and how !"

"I don&039;t think you have to scream," Marc said "Her door isn&039;t that thick"

"Do you think you can get the records? You said at the Ant&039;s that you&039;d try!" Thisured he was still pissed about the other night Not a word about how he didn&039;t even notice I was evil, natch I started to get freshly annoyed and tried to squash it I was in no position to play the victim "Marc?!?"

"Shit, I heard you" He rubbed his ear "Yeah, I don&039;t think that&039;ll be too hard"

"What about confidentiality issues?" Tina asked

"What&039;s that you say?" I shrieked "You want to knoe get around confidentiality stuff?"

They both looked annoyed, and then Marc answered her "Well, let&039;s put it this way Nor around in charts that are none of hter and save the world, I&039;ll make an exception And Tina, if you or Eric coet past the clerks"

"All right," Tina said

"Do you want me to come, too?" I screa away "We&039;ll tend to this errand for you, Majesty Besides" She eyed the closed, locked door to Jessica&039;s bedrooht! Well, here&039;s what happened! In case you ondering!"

"I&039; will last," Sinclair ot really bored down there in Hell and decided to come to Earth for a while! And she possessed the Ant when she was knocked up! And then she went back to Hell!"

"You know all this?" he asked, looking up again

"Yes! The Book told me! I mean, it didn&039;t tell me, I sort of read about it and then just knew the rest!"

"So your stepmother actually was the devil for, what, al," Tina said, wide-eyed

"Not so a is that she was possessed by Satan for al unusual!"

What was that? I thought I&039;d heard a h from the other side of the door I listened hard, but I couldn&039;t hear anything else Nuts

"I have to admit, that&039;s a new one on reith the wouess you called it, Marc" My voice was getting tired, so I was talking normally for the moment "She lost nearly a year of her life, and when she came back to herself, she s back to nore So she got what she wanted, eventually"

"But at what cost?" Sinclair asked He was sitting cross-legged on iveThen the ht," I said uneasily "Okay! So, Satan went back to Hell, the Ant broke up e, otta find her before she takes over the world!"

"An interesting agenda," Tina said, bringing up a sood it will do," Sinclair said, "your sister is fated to rule the world As you will recall froray area in the Book I doubt anything we can do will prevent the daughter of the devil froonna try!" I hollered back "We can&039;t not try!"

He shrugged "As you wish"

Daht, as I wish Now if I could just tear hietting back to nor, anyway? His last will and testarocery list? I leaned over and peeked, but he riting in a language I didn&039;t know

"Okay,to add?" I half-turned and watched Jessica&039;s door, but it didn&039;t open

So that was that