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[imaglyphwitch]

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December 25th

[flowerbracelet]

[Luz will find a gift addressed to her in their shared room. It's poorly wrapped with whatever gift paper Margot could get her paws on.

It's a teddy bear.]

Re: December 25th

[imaglyphwitch]

Oh hey, what's this?

A teddy bear?!

[Watch it Margot, you are now getting tackled hugged]!

Dec 25

[laminae]

[On the 25th Luz will find a gift has been left outside her door! According to the tag it's from Fern, and inside the meticulously wrapped package is an owl wand carved out of wood. With it is a note:]

This wand can't do any magic, it's just a carving, but the end of it is really pointy so if anyone hassles you it's good for stabbing.

-Fern

[Merry Christmas, Luz!]

Re: Dec 25

[imaglyphwitch]

Are you kidding me? It's great! Look at the top and everything! It even reminds me of Owlbert! I love it!

Thanks Fern!!

[laminae]

[When he gets the message from her he'll text back.]

cool, glad you like it
maybe one day you can figure out how to make it magical

[flowerbracelet]

[There's a surprised yelp from Margot as she's tackled to the floor.]

Uuf... I'm glad you like it, Luz.

[imaglyphwitch]

Of course I did! You gave it to me!

Hey, that reminds me. You ever want to go shopping for some new clothes?

[imaglyphwitch]

Yeah I do!

I'll have to ask Eda, but it's about what I'd want in a wand anyway!

[She'll ignore what Eda said about wands when they were at the Knee].

[laminae]

great! good luck

[imaglyphwitch]

Thanks! Knowing her we're bound to start breaking more rules anyway.

action; new owl house; late january

[owllady]

Hey kid. [ Eda doesn't knock, exactly, but instead says those words very loudly outside Luz's room one day, near the end of January, after they're back from the hotel, after everything shifted. ]

Re: action; new owl house; late january

[imaglyphwitch]

Hey Eda. What's going on?

[Luz is used to this, and just responds in kind].

[owllady]

[ Eda pushes open the door with a wide grin. ] I got you a magic teacher!

[imaglyphwitch]

Huh? What do you mean?

Are you tired of me?

[Well now you have her alarmed Eda! Why did you phrase it like that]?!

[owllady]

[ Why is she not excited. Eda drops her arms, hands on her hips, leaning forward to look at Luz. ]

What? I thought you'd be excited. She's a real teacher, from a magic school and everything.

[imaglyphwitch]

I mean, I thought YOU were my teacher...though I guess now you're more like my mentor/mom figure, so. Ok!

Who's this renowned teacher you're talking about?

[owllady]

Well, yeah. [ And she never... teaches you anything. ]

Name's Hecate. I think... [ Eda's not great at names, but she did find Hecate on the network, so she must have remembered it at some point ] Real witchy. Said she teaches potions.

[imaglyphwitch]

[That they could sort of agree on].

Hecate? That name definitely pops up on Earth, usually attributed to a dark goddess figure. You have any more information about her?

[It was good to know what Luz was getting into, after all].

[owllady]

[ Well, maybe that would have been the responsible thing to do: learn more about this woman that she might be entrusting Luz's magical education to.

She certainly did not do that. ]

Uh... Met her at that party. She's new. [ And that's honestly all she remembers. ] Well, if she's bad, you can just not learn from her.

Oh, and you gotta show her what you can do. Put on that magic show we talking about.

[imaglyphwitch]

That helps.

[No it doesn't, thanks a lot Eda].

Do YOU think she's good, from what you've seen of her so far?

You mean I have to audition like I did for Principal Bump?!

[owllady]

Uh, yeah. Yeah, she seemed good. [ Oh, right! Hecate made her a gem.

She reaches back and rifles around in her hair, pulling a large, red gem out. It's sort of shiny, but not perfect. She holds it up to Luz. ] Made me this. Pretty nice, huh?

Yeah, yeah, like that. But you're better now. It's gonna be great.

[imaglyphwitch]

Aw, that was nice of her! Pretty too!

You know, that's true! I only knew two spells when I tried to get into Hexside, now I know four and I can combine them too!

Plus...I think I might have accidentally been calling forth energy at the beach.

[owllady]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[ Eda squints at her. ] Were you? How'd you do that?

[ After a moment, Eda leans back against the wall, crossing her arms ] Who knows how long we're gonna be here. You got more magic in you, and maybe this lady can help you get to it. You got potential. [ And Eda doesn't want to be the reason that Luz wastes it ]

[imaglyphwitch]

We-ll, there was all this smoke and music, and I think the both of them together had me just moving and dancing, but, like, all night! I mean, ALL night into the morning. But while I was doing that, I could feel all this power building up around me, and so I used it to dance, but I could feel it, that I could do more if I concentrated it, you know? It was like when we were meditating, but hyped up.

If you think she's ok, I'll give it a try? What's the worse that could happen, other than her saying she wasted her time with my audition and that I'm squandering my gift and...wait, am I trying to talk myself out of this?

[owllady]

Huh. You're pretty connected to this place. [ Eda needs to take more time to think about that. She watches Luz for a moment, then shrugs. ] You do anything cool with it?

I'm not gonna make you do it. Thought you'd want to, but if you don't, I'll tell her that we don't need a teacher here.

If you do, and she's awful, I'll tell her to get outta our house.