Celine actually had to take a moment to recover. "What do you mean, you don't want to? You have a sacred duty--"
"Yeah, but--" Zoey took a deep breath. She'd finally gotten her thoughts, if not in order, at least in single file. "Look, the three of us have a lot to unpack right now, like Rumi somehow being a half-demon, whatever that even means, and not telling us--"
"‐-after Vegas, yes, which is a whole other thing we need to talk about, but you didn't tell us before that--"
"--which again, we are going to have a conversation about, but also I think I'm now pretty sure we all have some kind of feelings about each other and I would really really like to know what they are because I am tired of guessing!"
There was a short silence.
Mira cleared her throat. "What Zoey said. And as long as we're adding things to the Huntrix to-do list, Rumi, I know you and Jinu had some kind of thing going on--"
"You what?! With a demon?" Celine snapped.
"Well, maybe I wouldn't have had to if you'd ever told me what happened with my mom and dad instead of just avoiding the subject my whole life!"
"Oh. Um. Adding that to the conversation list," Zoey said quietly.
"Anyway" Mira continued while Celine and Rumi glared at each other, "Rumi, can we finally just go kill the fuck out of the Saja Boys?"
"Oh, yeah," Rumi said through clenched teeth, "the only thing going on between us is going to be my sword."
There was another silence, punctuated only by the repeated pinging of Celine's phone.
"While I'm glad to see you've finally remembered that Hunters are supposed to kill demons instead of fraternize with them, perhaps you would care to give some thought to trying to repair Huntrix's reputation?"
"Oh, get off your high horse," Mira snapped, barely a beat before Rumi's retort. "At this point we could make out sloppy style on stage and the fans would seal the Honmoon overnight. Zoey calls it Plan Omega."
Zoey's head whipped around. "How-- that was private! How did you even--"
"You left one of your notebooks open on the kitchen counter."
Celine pinched the bridge of her nose and visibly counted to ten. "Girls, clearly I should have been keeping a much tighter rein over you. I had no idea you'd become so--"
"Right," Rumi interrupted, "so kill the Saja Boys and then have several conversations, right?"
Zoey and Mira glanced at each other. "Right."
"Great. Hang on, I think I figured something out earlier..." Rumi grabbed Zoey and Mira's hands and all three of them vanished in a puff of pink smoke.
Celine's phone started pinging even faster.
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