Xirena...
He paused that thought as she shattered the television.
Xirena stared at it in horror. "Why did that break?"
"You can't slam your fist into the screen," he explained.
"Why not?" she asked in a voice that sounded eerily close to Simi's.
"It breaks," Danger answered.
"But why?"
Danger placed her hand against her temple as if she were beginning to feel a pain there. "Is this normal demon behavior?"
He nodded. "Just wait. This is very mild. It gets a whole lot worse."
"Great. I'm really looking forward to it."
Xirena picked up the remote to place it in her mouth. Alexion grabbed it away from her. "Plastic isn't good for demons."
Xirena glared at him. "How do you know?"
"It gives Simi a bellyache every time. Trust me. It's just not a good Charonte snack."
As Danger watched the demon explore the hotel room, a thought occurred to her. "You know, I think we can return to my house now."
"How so?"
She tilted her head toward Xirena. "We have our own demon now, right?"
Alexion smiled as he understood her meaning. "If the other one is still there, she can wrangle him out."
"Yep. Let's check out of here and go on a demon hunt, shall we?"
The drive back to Tupelo was positively boring, except for when the demon discovered the radio. She almost caused Danger to wreck as she leaned over the front seat, playing with the stations.
With every new song, Xirena tried to sing the words, which she didn't know.
Worse, she couldn't sing on key at all.
Danger glanced over to Alexion who took it all in stride.
"Aren't you going deaf?" she asked him.
He shook his head. "I'm used to it, though to be honest, Simi is at least on key most of the time. She lives to sing."
After a while, the demon shrank in size and then lay down on the seat with her feet up in the air and her head hanging off the cushion, toward the floor board.
Danger frowned. "What's she doing?"
"Resting. They sleep like that."
"Really?"
He nodded. "Simi props her feet up on the wall most nights. I have no idea why."
"It's comfortable," Xirena said. "You should try it."