"Ugh" said Savannah "I need the longest bath in all of history. The demonic stink coming from that scumbag!"
"You Americans crazy enough to invent internet, that is what you get. Morons get together and exchange idiocy. In old days, people at least had to learn Latin."
"You know who she reminded me of?"
"I know. Azathoth."
Savannah and Katerina fell silent as they remembered their struggle against the demonically possessed occultist murderer. Their victory had been a far closer thing than they liked to recall.
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"Can Cat stay with me for a few days? She's having trouble with her new mom."
Zoe was convinced that her ravishingly beautiful, highly intelligent new daughter could do better than Cat. Frankly, when she remembered how Josh had terrorized Larry, she wasn't in a great hurry to forgive her just because she had gone through the great change like everyone else. Who knows what was going on behind that mask of gentleness and timidity? Was Cat, just as cruel but more subtle as a woman, planning to break Hannah's heart?
On the other hand, Cat's dad-mom was a genuinely scary person. Something about her was off. "Alright" said Zoe "But just for a few days."
Hannah was relieved. She wanted to get Cat away from her family so she would not be afraid to talk about what was bothering her.
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What made the exploration of alternate universes so dangerous is that each one had slightly different, (or extremely different if you got far enough away from home in the multiverse), rules of magic. Part of the abilities of the Sorceress Supreme was to adapt to new rules quickly, and Aziza was slightly better at it than Regina, which is why she had this assignment.
Wrapped in magical stealth, Aziza beheld an earth gone mad, with numerous monstrous and demonic creatures, nearly all of whom she sensed had once been human. (One of the oddest things initially was the extravagant male genitalia belonging to some of the demon creatures, and Aziza had to remind herself that all-female worlds were not the norm of the multiverse.) The center of it all seemed to be a building in this world's equivalent of North America, one that had started as a high school. Cautiously, Aziza drew near. . .