file:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%20Diana%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).html by High Jinx

Author:High Jinx [Jinx, High]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-02-25T10:26:46.902000+00:00

Monica giggled. The fact that Diana had turned the others away—but had just said she'd help her— cheered Monica up immensely.

Diana grinned back, but sobered again in the next instant. "Now, about your other problem—have you told anyone else what happened. Even your mother?"

Monica shook her head. She'd wanted to tell her mom, and she somehow knew that Rhonda would believe her—but she also knew what Rhonda would say about Diana. The family had some cousins in Jamaica—and Rhonda had come a bit too close to some of the nastier aspects of voundoun to ever trust anyone who admitted she was a witch.

And no matter what her mother would think, Monica was certain she could trust Diana Tregarde.

"Nothing else has happened to me, " she told Diana. "Nothing at all. Maybe it was all a mistake or something. ”

To Monica's dismay, Diana shook her head. "Not a chance, kiddo, " she said regretfully. "I wish there was, but magic has to be targeted very specifically to get that kind of result. Nope, somebody out there wanted to send you screaming into next week. Have you come up with any idea who that somebody might be?

It's got to be someone you know, or who at least knows you. ”

Monica shook her head. "Everybody I know is pretty normal, " she said slowly.

"There's supposed to be some heavy-metal dudes that are into Satanism in my class and in the senior class, but I’ve never met any of them and I wouldn't know who they were unless somebody pointed them out to me. Most of the kids that like metal look pretty much alike, you know? There's even a Christian heavy-metal band. ”

"Heavy-metal Satanists?" Diana said incredulously, and snorted. "Posers. Bush league. The Dan Quayles of High Mag-ick. Not even close to whoever was after you. The kind of knowledge and practice it takes just to call one of those imps is a hell of a lot more than any kid is going to have. And the kind of control it takes is something most of them would never even dream of. It takes the same kind of discipline and patience it's going to take you to get that book into publishable form, if that's making any sense to you. ”

Oddly enough—or perhaps not so oddly—it was. "You're right, " she agreed.

"From what I’ve heard they aren't into anything more complicated than lighting candles, getting stoned, and running around naked while they play Judas Priest on the CD. ”

"Pretty much what I figured. " Diana nodded. "It looks to me like whoever sent those critters after you is an adult. Call me a kind of magic-tracker; I can read the footprints that power leaves behind, and everything I saw suggested a mature mind. Can you think of any adult you've pissed off lately?"

The last time somebody yelled at me, it was for passing a note to Alan—and before that, it was Ms. Greeley giving me a hard time for daydreaming.

"I—no, " she said. "Not anybody, not an adult, anyway.

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