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have their own city.
    She needed to work out where in
the world she wanted to set up shop, and get on that, no doubt. Really, she
needed to get on that one pretty quickly, and buy some land for it, before she
dumped the rest of her funds on someone. Her mother seemed the most likely
person to do that with, but if she tried that, it would probably make it seem
like Zack was just faking being her new owner. So that left people that she
either didn't care about, or didn't know. The best situation would be finding
someone so trustworthy that they would give it all back when she wanted it
later, but short of being her slave, that probably wasn't going to happen. That
meant getting the land first, and going from there.
    She didn't have to go too far,
having a lot of funds for the project already. That, and the internet let her
purchase a nice place in Elko County, just outside of Sparks, which was big
enough to be worth setting up in, and small enough that no one would want to
take it from her. Someone else almost certainly had a claim on both Reno and
Las Vegas, but from the set up of the town of Sparks, it was free and clear
that way. Still, she decided to check it out, if after she started the
transactions on EBay.
    That, she did the easy way, by
calling up Gregor, The Cleric. He was in charge of North America after all,
which meant that he would want to stop problems, if he could. In the main.
    She had to wait for four rings,
but a kindly voice finally answered. It was long distance, since, in charge of
North America or not, his personal territory was in Switzerland. All of the
country, if she had that right. He also held Rome, but that place was pretty
small and didn't leave him with a lot of resources, she was willing to bet.
    "Hello? How may I be of aid
to you this fine day?" It was pleasant, but then the Demon generally was .
Not that he couldn't be a problem, if she didn't play her cards right.
    "Cleric. This is Keeley
Thomson." She waited, since the man had to call her by her own title, or
at least one of them, or it would be an insult. Then... Well, it would be
foolish of her to fight, but it would mark them as enemies. For half a second
she wondered about that, but the man spoke without hesitation of note.
    "Mistress of Souls. Did you
call to set up that date that the Line Walker suggested for us?"
    That was the man being either
pretty creepy, since he looked like a sixty year old priest most of the time,
or it was him actually trying to be friendly. Zack hadn't suggested they date after all, but that the older Demon and her have sex. It was a bit blatant for
her, but then, for one of her kind, she was a prude and knew it. That had been
Zack's point, though she also knew that Darla had put him up to it. To help her, most likely. She was too young and fragile to be out on her own, and
everyone knew it. Oh, she'd passed her test for it, but she kept wondering how
that had happened. She should have ended up dead. There was really no
other way for that to have gone, but Tarsus had proclaimed himself satisfied
with her performance. It was another sign that the Greater Demon hadn't wanted to simply get rid of her. For some reason.
    She killed off most of her
emotions, except for a slight tingly feeling of lust and appreciation for the
being she was talking to. That took an application of magic, but, she noticed,
not all that much. Gregor was old and looked it, but he wasn't
disgusting about it. The Demon was clean and polite and had really pretty eyes,
she suddenly noticed, thinking about them. A nice blue with clear whites, even
in his slightly wrinkled face.
    "That sounds fun, but wasn't
why I called today. We should do that though? Maybe after the Second Crucible,
if I live? I hear tell that a certain Librarian is planning to kill me if I
fail. Not that I'm complaining, but since that clearly isn't the real
situation, I think that I might find a way around the death part. Or
not." She couldn't be certain, given that if