Jinx High Mercedes Lackey(1)

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."How awful do I look?" Monica asked mournfully, when they were out ofhearing distance.Di smothered a chuckle."Not bad, really.I don't think that sleeve's going to berepairable, though.If I were you, I'd just cut the other one off too.Might make anice little sleeveless number with some careful tailoring."I don't think I ever want to wear it again, " the girl said in a subdued voice."Notever." She glanced at Di out of the corner of her eye."Diana what reallyhappened back there?"Di pulled the last of the pins out of her hair and shook it loose."Whoever wasafter you went after you again, " she replied, checking her dress for damage.There wasn't much that a good dry cleaner couldn't handle the one advantageof expensive materials and tailoring."This time he or she, I'm not sure whichwent after you physically, probably thinking I wouldn't be guarding you againstthat kind of attack.He got that meat-head stoned on PCP and sent him out tobeat you up.Your boyfriend just got in the way.file:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%.%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).html (361 of 434)3/16/2004 9:27:02 PMfile:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%20Diana%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).html"Oh, " Monica said, in a small and frightened voice."I thought it was just Imean, everybody knows Sandy does drugs, I thought ""Trust me.It was deliberate, and aimed at you, " Di said firmly."Monica, youcan't keep telling yourself that this is all just something that isn't reallyhappening.It is happening, and denying it isn't going to make you any safer.Wasn't it you who warned me about that other thing?"Monica shuddered, and shrank in on herself."I thought it was just one of Sandy'sbuddies.They had reached the car, and Di unlocked the passenger's door for her."Didyou?" she asked, holding the door open so that Monica could get in."No, " the girl said unhappily."I guess I didn't."Good, " Di said, climbing into the driver's side and sighing as her tired bodysank into the upholstery."Now we're finally getting somewhere& Monica's mother blessings on the fates had been so worried about Monicathat she hadn't asked too many personal questions of Di, and she hadn't wastedany time getting the child into the apartment.That gets one child safely home.And I don't think I want to be Sandy's parentswhen Rhonda Carlin gets hold of them.Assuming she doesn't call the cops first.Thank the gods it isn't much farther to my own bed.Di drove up into Larry's driveway feeling weary to the bone, and all she reallyfile:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%.%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).html (362 of 434)3/16/2004 9:27:02 PMfile:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%20Diana%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).htmlwanted to do was go have a hot shower and go to bed.Fat chance.There was still work to do.Deke's car wasn't in the garage, which meant he wasn't home yet; well, it wasn'teven midnight, so that wasn't too surprising.If I'm going to try tracking down this bastard or bitch I don't want anyoneuntrained around anyway.Not even one of the targets.She let herself in with her key.Larry wasn't obviously around, which meant hewas either buried in his office or watching a videotape in his bedroom.Shedoubted he would have Felt the ruckus; that wasn't one of his abilities.Just theSight, and a little bit of other things.That was just as well; she didn't want to tellhim what had happened just yet.Not until she had all the information in herpossession.So, first things first; the hot shower.She emptied her mind and let the needle-spray wash all her weariness down the drain with the dirt and perspiration fromthe fight.That was a little mental trick that usually worked for her, at least forthe short term, and it did this time, too.As she'd thought, her dress, amazinglyenough, was in perfect shape, except for a couple of stains that would wash out.Well, perhaps not so amazing; it was heavy silk and cost a small fortune butwas worth it, seeing the amount of abuse it could take and bounce back from.Think next time I make a ritual robe it'll be silk.It'll probably outlast me.She braided her wet hair and coiled it in a knot at the back of her neck, slippedon a leotard and jeans, and laid out four candles in the middle of the rug.Thisfile:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%.%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).html (363 of 434)3/16/2004 9:27:02 PMfile:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%20Diana%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).htmlwas the "quickie" version of a protective circle; she lit each of the candles inturn, evoking the powers of the four compass quarters, and then sank to the floorin a cross-legged position and picked up the threads of magic she'd detected onthe jock, and on the construct.She let herself drift into a light trance.Now to follow the traces back to whereand when they were created.That should keep my quarry from sensing what I'mdoing; if I invoke retro-cognition he won't send up any alerts in the here andnow.Unless of course he's laid a trap back there for me.She acknowledged thepossibility, then dismissed it.That's the chance I'll have to take, I guess.She allowed all the identifying factors to sink into her mind, the way abloodhound would memorize a scent.Then, like the bloodhound, she began"sniffing" for that same scent [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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