A screen rose up in the back of the SUV, lighting up to show a picture of pair of young female students walking somewhere on campus. A blonde and a brunette, both wearing jeans, LL Bean boots, and thick sweaters. The picture shrunk and another opened next to it, showing the blonde, now wearing UVM sweats and flip-flops.

“The young lady with the blonde hair is Celia Torres, a freshman student. The picture was taken from campus security memory storage date stamped fifteen minutes ago, on the sidewalk that heads Redstone Campus. The second picture was taken fourteen minutes ago in the Davis Center. Currently, Celia is in her dorm room wearing the same clothes pictured here. The other Celia disappeared off campus, heading downtown.”

“Gonna be hard to find her if she just copies little girls all over campus,” Justin noted.

“Yeah, almost impossible. Anything else?”

“One of my drones found this behind a bush. Residual radiation triggered its sensors.”

The pictures of the students or students and demon in disguise vanished, replaced by a picture of a chain and a cylindrical lump of twisted metal.

“Expended bullet?” Chris asked. “A big one. DU?”

“30mm x 173mm anti-tank cannon round.”

“She used it to block me,” Chris said. “This might be a break.”

“How so?” Justin asked.

“Chris gets visions of demons.” Nika’s voice came through the SUV’s stereo.

“Nika, where are you guys?” Chris asked.

“Behind you, in our own black-tinted creeper mobile,” she answered. “You might want to tell Stevens to pull out, as the Gordon Fan club is starting to collect outside.”

They looked out the windows and saw more kids gathering, holding phones up to video.

“Stevens—” Chris started but the driver waved a hand and took off, pulling out into traffic.

“Nika or Omega, where’s Declan and Stacia?” Chris asked.

“She reported that she’s taking the demon bait back to Arcane. He wanted to stay and get into it with this Lilith bitch, but she wasn’t having any part of that. Told him to leave the demon to the expert.”

“How are they getting there? He could still be vulnerable,” he said.

“She took the car you all arrived in.”

“Father and Stacia have arrived back at Arcane. I have drones on two of the suspected Helbourne but my third drone was too far away and I believe I am just ten seconds behind the third one. Based on their current activity, I would raise the probability that they are indeed Helbourne to ninety-five percent.”

The view on the monitor changed to a feed from a moving drone, following a fast-running figure that looked to be on one of the streets near their location.

“The southbound entity is heading for the intersection of Route 7 and Route 2, approximately two hundred and seventy-six yards ahead.”