the readings definitely showed a nest of some kind.  MARA didn't bother to point this out to the two girls, as surely they'd have noticed that much by now. It wasn't their first time fighting these things.  Besides, they both clearly knew what they were getting into.  What did worry MARA however, was that she still couldn't quite get a reading on just how many there were.  Worse, they<i>were</i>all reds. Reds generally meant trouble.  Again, that was more information the girls should already know, so MARA certainly wasn't going to bother to inform them of that.<br/><br/>MARA just paid enough attention to the conversation to throw out a little bit, mostly answers to questions. "There's some power heading to the buildings, but most of the switches are all flipped. You'd have to be a wizard to get any of it to work right."<br/><br/>Most of the barbs had been taken out of the AI's comments. Hard to do too much jabbering when you were still freaking about the readouts. At least now things were starting to solidify. It definitely was a nest. Said nest was definitely close. And they were moving, if only a little bit. Sighing, MARA shoved this information onto the girls' readouts, again trusting them to at least figure that much out.<br/><br/>"Be careful about kabooming every darn demon you encounter, Mandy," insisted the AI. "I want to poke and prod these things. Can't do that if all you give us is little tidbits."<br/><br/>Also it was sometimes fun to see just what the demons would do. once, they'd locked a demon up inside the room with a cow, and the thing had humped it to death.  Weird, but oddly entertaining.