Chapter 4: Keeping Up A-fear-ances

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Flashback

Teen Eda POV

The scene opens with total darkness

She narrating

Teen Eda: It always starts the same way.

A teen Eda suddenly gasps and sits up and panting

She narrating

Teen Eda: I wake up someplace dark.

She finds herself in a shadowy void. She stands up and looks around with a frightened expression. A shadow flashes past behind her. She turns around to look at it

She narrating

Teen Eda: And then it appears.

The Owl Beast appears. It steps on the ground, causing it to shake. It then stretches its neck towards Eda and stops in front of her, and screeches. Eda cries out in surprise, then turns around and runs away and panting and crying. The scene then transitions into her in her room. She is sitting on her bed and telling this to a healer from the Healing Coven and her mother

Teen Eda: And eventually... I wake up and I know I turned into... that thing.

Healer: I see. Here, take this.

He hands over a large gem to Eda

Healer: It will tell you when the beast's energy is bubbling to the surface. Also, I hear gems are quite fashionable for young witches.

(???): Oh, what a beautiful little stone.

(???): May I speak with you outside?

She ushers him outside

(???): Just a minute, hon?

She closes the door. Outside the room, she starts scolding the healer. Eda gets up and eavesdrops on their conversation behind the door

(???): What the heck was that? I thought you were in the Healing Coven, not the Bauble Brigade.

Healer: Mrs. Clawthorne, we have never seen a curse quite like this. I'm not sure it can be healed. Perhaps if we consult the Potions Coven, they may know a way to keep it at bay.

(???): Keep it at bay? Oh, no. My daughter is suffering and I want that thing out! Cut it out if you have to.

Upon hearing that, She gasps and covers her mouth. She pants and clutches her chest. Then, she looks up and notices that her window is open. The wind blows and causing it to swing and squeak

She pushes the door open

(???): Edalyn, I'm taking you to someone else.

She looks up

(???): Huh?

She notices the open window. Scene then cuts to Eda running through a forest. She eventually stops to catch her breath and then starts walking while looking around

Teen Eda: I never knew this was back here.

She trips over something and falls down. She turns around to see what made her fell

Teen Eda: Huh?

She notices a suitcase-like thing buried in the sand. She picks it up and wipes off the dirt on its surface, revealing an eye shape. The eye then flashes, and the suitcase flies off Eda's hand. It folds open, with a key turning the lock and unlocking it. A door then opens and revealing it to be a portal leading to an unknown realm

She squints

Teen Eda: What?

She distant

(???): Edalyn! Edalyn, is that you?

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