A dreamy female voice echoed into the light. Four so far, mistress. They all seem apprehensive of my gift but one, the black-haired. She's bolder than the others. Lilith paused for a moment as the elder's response came into her mind. Lilith continued her report. Well, it hasn't been long. All four seem stable enough for now. Have any other of the artifacts been activated? Another response resonated into Lilith, this one more chiding. Forgive me mistress. I trust your plan.

"So we're going to leave the mall for later," Sunny said to the five women around the table. "We need to try something small first. We'll go the outlet strip after all the stores close. We'll be concealed by the costumes pretty well, but I'm pretty sure alarms are going to go off when we open the doors. Each one of us will get a shop, hit everything, and move on." Taylor started laughing.

"What's going to happen?" Susan asked, "I mean, after the alarms go off and stuff, what do you think the cops will do about it?"

"I have a feeling things are going to get crazy," Sunny responded. "And once they find out what they're dealing with, there'll be more of them. That's why we have to be quick. They might run away. They might just start firing their weapons into the clothes. I don't know." Sunny sighed. "At any rate, each store shouldn't take us much longer than 2 minutes. If each of us hit three, that's most of the outlet center. Between the shelves and the stock, that should be a good start."