“Landreia, can you take our beloved pets and resident humans and see if you can start looking for anything of use in those books they collected? Anything at all.” When she nodded, Tim turned. “Mona, we have to expect the worst in terms of demons. You’re the expert there. We need to know what else might be coming our way. I suspect we may see demons we haven’t seen in a while. Really, anything you can think of to help us out here.”

Mona nodded. “I’ve got you. How much of all this am I relaying to the students of Edenburg and SOMA?”

“Everything. If this is the start of the war with Lilith, the final war, then not a single person on this Earth is safe.” He snapped his fingers. “In fact, Kenneth, let’s amp up Haven’s plan with school. Everything from here on out, until further notice, is focused on defense and survival.”

“Good idea.” Kenneth tapped his fingers on the table. “So they can protect themselves and not go running headlong into battle at their fancy.”

“If they know just how terrifying battle will be, they may just hunker down instead.” Tim pursed his lips. “Kessler, we need to know if any of our students are actually ready to fight. I don’t want to enlist them too soon, but we most likely will need more. You’re the one who trained our Coven these last twelve years, so I trust your opinion on where we stand.”

Kessler stretched his legs out and stared into the distance. “I can evaluate all students, of all suits. I’ll start with Edenburg and then move to SOMA.”

“We need more schools,” I said with a sigh.

Constance closed her eyes and touched her belly. “Just for lockdown purposes alone. For safety.”

Tim cursed. “Haven’s been wanting to open more SOMA locations, but we haven’t caught our breath long enough to do so.”

Emersyn looked up from the Book of Shadows. “I’ll call Heather.”

Everyone else looked to her with raised eyebrows.

She shrugged. “That woman is a force to be reckoned with. If there’s any non-Coven member, and non-Coven pet, that can be tasked with getting that ball rolling, it is Heather. And I can help.”

Tim smirked and looked to her soulmate’s apparition sitting next to her. “Deacon, what do you think?”

Deacon grinned. “I think if I tell my mom to get on a plane and come down here, let her talk to us face-to-face so she’s fully in the zone on the situation . . . she’ll have schools open before we’re actually ready to fill them.”

Tim chuckled. “Get her here if that’s what she needs, but don’t waste time. Tegan needs you to absorb that entire book so we can unleash all the twisted shit inside of you that we haven’t seen yet.”