Triple Threat has been added to your Power’s Skills!

Just as she suspected. Every other skill was related to creating a new sister. That was handy to know. Maybe the pattern would change later, but that wasn’t a concern for the moment.

Emily wondered if she should wait. She was wearing the same clothes as the day before, was tucked under some blankets with two limpets resting on her, and she probably had terrible bed hair.

It wasn’t the greatest first impression to make.

But then, her other sisters didn’t seem to care at all.

“Create Sister,” Emily intoned.

She was feeling excited as a burst of light heralded the arrival of a third sister.

The excitement turned to confusion as a second burst of light appeared next to the first.

The remains of the excitement ran into a brick wall with the advent of a third burst.

Three girls faded into view.

No, Emily realized. Not three girls, but one girl three times over.

They were shorter than Athena, and just a hair taller than Teddy, with gray hoodies and jeans over plain black sneakers. The little rounded ears atop their heads bore some resemblance to Teddy’s, but the large poofy tails behind them—gray and covered in dark rings—were entirely different.

The girls all blinked as one, locked eyes on the bed, then smiled bright and goofy, showing off little fangs that poked out from the rest of their teeth. “Cuddle pile!” they screamed as they launched into the air.

“Wait!” Emily said, but they were already at the apex of their jump.

Three small but fortunately light bodies crashed into Emily and the girls, a disproportionate number of elbows and knees flailing around.

Athena woke up with a protesting hoot and Teddy growled, kicking out.

Somehow, after a few moments of confused scrambling, the chaos settled.

Emily found herself with two arms wrapped around her neck and a new face hovering right before her. “Hi!” the girl said.

“Uh,” Emily replied. “Hey?”

Another head popped into Emily’s line of sight, ears twitching and big eyes blinking fast. “Hi!” the second head said.

“Hi?”

“You already said hi,” the first girl said.

“I . . . did?”

She felt the air being pressed out of her lungs as the third girl climbed onto the back of the one atop her and peeked over her sibling’s shoulder. “Yeah! You did.”

Emily was about to ask that they get off her when Teddy roared and jumped to her feet right on the edge of the bed. “You guys are waking me up!” she said. “Get off!”