Birthmark

Ch. 42: Back to the Owl House

Later, Lilith walked up to Belos.

"Father." She said, before sending a nod to the Golden Guard, "Hunter."

"Cousin Lilith." Hunter said with a nod back.

"Greetings, Lilith. Are you here to deliver the news of Luz's school exam?" Belos asked her.

"Yes, I am. Along with something else." Lilith said with a smile. "Lucenda passed with flying colors."

"Of course she did, she's just like her mothers." Belos said.

Lilith nodded with a smile before focusing on the other topic she wanted to discuss.

"You see, seeing as Luz will one day be the Emperor, and since she is behind others in terms of knowledge, I was wondering if-"

"She wants to take more than one Track, doesn't she?" Belos asked.

"...Yes, she does. With her high interest in learning everything magic related and her high magical output, I think studying more than one track at Hexside with her beneficial for her." Lilith said to her father.

"Lilith, you know the rules." Belos said.

"Yes, but she spent ten years in the Human Realm, she needs every opportunity she can get." Lilith said.

"I have to agree, uncle. If I was in a realm without magic, I'd want to make up for lost time too." Hunter said in agreement, even though he couldn't do magic himself.

He at least had the artificial staff that let him do artificial magic. Belos sat in silence. Lilith and Hunter looked at each other. They haven't seen Belos this quiet since Eda called by his full name. She was grounded for a full month. He really doesn't like being reminded that he's named after a former witch hunter.

"I suppose...we can do a trial run." He said before holding up his finger. "If her grades are good and she stays out of trouble, Lucenda can take more than one track for one year."

"Thank you, Father." Lilith said.

'YES! Lucenda will be so happy!' Lilith thought with glee.

"I'll speak to Principal Bump about it." Belos said.

"I wholeheartedly think he will agree." Lilith said as she nodded to her father and took her leave.

'Now that that's taken care of, I can go hang out with my daughter.'

Once she was out of the throne room, Lilith quickly used a teleportation spell get to her family so she can share the good news. They should be at the Ice Scream place by now. At the Ice Scream place, Luz was enjoying her treat. The flavors were unlike anything she had ever tasted before on Earth, and it was made all the sweeter now that she had friends and family to enjoy it with.

"Slow down, Luz." Camila said.

"She's right, Luz. Eat too fast, you'll get hiccups." Amity said to her.

"I'm back, my dears." Lilith said.

Luz, Camila, and the others saw Lilith enter the ice scream shop with a smile on her face. She had good news to give and a certain witch was eager to hear it.

"So, how did it go?" Camila asked as Lilith sat down next to her.

"It went quite well."

"How well exactly?" Camila asked.

Lilith smiled as she whispered into her wife's ear, making her look surprised as Lilith pulled away and nodded to her.

'Luz is going to explode with happiness.' Camila thought.