It would have been too suspicious. As it was I'd just told them the guys having the party didn't want a whole bunch of kids showing up, party crashers... you know. So I was supposed to keep it quiet. It seemed like a good excuse, they'd believed it anyway. But I guess they'd said something to Jen, because now she knew and of course she wasn't too happy with me and it was only 8:15 in the morning.I sighed, knowing it was gonna be a long day. Fridays always were.I couldn't bring Jen to the party. I. I knew someone had come into the basement and the sound of their voices woke me up even though they were whispering. I was still with my aunt and uncles since my parents hadn't come back from their vacation without me. I heard a womans voice and it didnt belong to my aunt, I heard a male voice and it was my uncle so I slipped out of bed and quietly padded to the door turning the knob and easing it open as soundlessly as I could. There I could see the back of a womans head as she sat in front. Our hosts, Carlos and Maria took up position prominently in the middle of the dance floor and each made a small speech. It was basically the usual canned speech about how good we all look, how proud they are of us, how far we have all come, that sort of thing. After the speech, Carlos explained how there would be a waltz during cocktail hour followed by dinner. Following dinner would be the Latin dancing where every couple would get a chance to show off their stuff. The band resumed it’s. “Okay, uh, imagine if you...” Dey dredged what little she knew of Huntress culture from her brain. “Imagine if you found a Perseus Mumbler-”“You mean a Veil Keeper?”Dey waved her hand. “To-may-toh, To-mah-toh,” she said, shaking her head. “Imagine that, but they were also flying a Xeth peace program overhead. So, basically, one is super evil, but the rest is not so evil?”“Huh,” Xee said.Dey walked back to the cabin. Her bed sat next to the computer systems, which she tapped on. She brought up.