"They've got a moon colony."

"- ooh."

"Lunabella! I've been. It's lovely. I wouldn't want to live there, but it's a fine place to visit."

"How very exciting."

Evelyn emerges from the enclave. "Atlanta's graduates all made it home -"

"Oh, thank goodness -"

"- as did New York's, Tampa's, and Boston's, at which point I concluded that most likely this was an isolated incident. Bella, any guesses?"

"My first guess was that I'd messed up the gates somehow. I was holding an anti-magic field around us - torus shaped, and I was adjusting it as we got close so it wouldn't touch the gates, but could have made a mistake."

"An anti-magic field! How does that work?"

"I think now is maybe not the time, sister dearest."

But maaaaaagic. 

"Sorry."

"Front me the mana sometime and I'll show you."

Eeeeeeee. 

"Bella wanted a phone so she could contact New York's front organization to arrange with someone named Orion Lake to use witch mana to fuel a honeytrap mass obliteration of mals."

"Mm, yes, I have the Manhattan Prep number -" She writes down a copy for Bella. "And a spare phone." Phone for Bella.

"I mean, I probably shouldn't call literally today, it's graduation day, I should give them a week to catch their breaths."

How many people are going to die in a week?

"Well, that gives us more time to recruit more witches."

"Yeah, anyone who doesn't need a week to catch their breaths can get underway - and we don't need Orion specifically, necessarily, he just came to mind, it would be kind of weird if out of two worlds the one person we couldn't do this without was a dude in my year?"

"That's true. Mom, are you going to want to be one of the combatants here?" 

"Yes." 

"Mum's going to want to too, isn't she." 

Sigh. "I imagine so." 

WHY can't all her loved ones stay safe while she takes all the risks. That would be so much better!!!

"If she's going to be in this fight, she'd better not have to hold anything back. Uh, remember how I said my secrets were less concerning than Johann's?"

"Yes..." 

"Mum isn't just a Daeva, she's half Daeva and half Wulong. I hexed off the antlers so people'd underestimate me."