an experiment gone wrong

a path to friendship or sarow?

It's been a couple of days since I moved in with Eda, yesterday we got my stuff from the human realm and god I didn't think I had so much stuff, I mean almost all of it is hand-me-downs I think. King loved messing with the old globe I had he even kept saying 'im king of the human realm mwa ha ha ha ha' and ran around chuckling to himself well Eda and I sorted my stuff In Front of the house, hooty surprisingly stayed quiet the entire day which was honestly more weird than hooty being weird. I got my own room so I had help get and putting my stuff in there but setting up and decorating I did by myself and wow did it take a while, aslo turns out there is a lot I can eat here because of how similar my diet was when I lived in the human realm. Surprisingly no one in the boiling isles has found out or figured out I'm human and it's been so helpful especially since my long, thick ass hair covers my ears. King has told me and Eda that we look like we're related because of how our hair naturally looks when let down. Except for my hair I can easily make it compact well Eda. . . Struggles with just putting her hair in a ponytail. I have been a little shy in exploring the boiling isles, well more of every cell screams in fear when I try to exit the house to go adventuring and hooty seems to notice this and has been keeping me company and telling me about his day and not going to lie he sees more cool and weird things then everyone realizes. Eda calls me from downstairs in a tired manner startling me out of my Inner monologue, I finish my thoughts in my journal and I hide it under a loose floor board. I head down stairs to see Eda spiraled out over the couch in sweatpants and an oversized t-shirt that said 'bad girls coven' with a poorly made picture of Eda standing up on her staff in her usual red dress and a pair of aviators, she had a bored look void of any will.

"You need something Eda?" I ask wondering what she needed

"I'm bored and don't know what to do, so if there's anything you want to do I'm all for it kiddo" Eda says as king rolls off the couch onto the floor saying weh as he hit the floor in a cute manner.

"Actually yeah I wanted to go into town and look around" I say and Eda perks up a bit.

"Great idea kid, hey I could also teach you how to pickpocket well we're there" she jumps off the couch and runs upstairs to change just to stop and look over her shoulder with a concerned look.
"Hey kid, your afraid of heights right?" I give a slight nod as I pick up kings sleeping body off the floor. Eda turns and walks up the stairs only to return a few minutes later in her usual red dress with the torn up ends.
"Well kid, let's go cause some caos" Eda says as she summons her staff and walks to the door getting ready to leave.

'elsewhere on the isles'
"AMITY BLIGHT! WHY ARE YOU NOT IN ALL ADVANCED CLASSES YET" mother screams into my face for the second time this week. I stay quiet knowing that if I speak out my punishment will only get worse, besides getting sent to my room for the night with out dinner isn't the worst thing ever, I already spend most of my time there anyway and plus Emra and Edric sneak me food after mother and father are asleep.
"AND WHY ARE YOU STILL WEARING THAT HIDEOUS HAT, GO TO YOUR ROOM AND THROW AWAY THAT HIDEOUS HAT WELL YOUR AT IT" mother screams as she points to the staircase and huffs angrily and I obediently walk up the stairs and into the hallway out of her sight. A couple of the butlers and maids try their best to not look at me, probably from overhearing mother screaming at me, I let out a small shaky sigh and continue walking down the hall to another set of stairs but these are the stairs to my room.

"Oh mittens~" the voices of my twin older siblings ring out in unison, their voices may annoy me but I can't help but admit that their voices are like honeyed melodies from a coupled singers in an opera.

“What do you want emra, edric” i say with an irritated and defeated sigh

“Oh nothing, mother has instructed us to keep a close eye on you. so you dont sneak out or do something that might embarrass the family” edric says well looking over his shoulder and emra gets in close and whispers
“Were helping you sneak out sis, mom has been hounding on you the last few days and you haven't been able to take a breather and i also read your diary” my face burns red with anger

“You did what” i say trying to keep my voice calm my magic though bubbled and aggressively trickled out around me. Emra smiles sheepishly and tries to use edric and a shield but he pushes her away.

“So amity sneak out have some fun and come back and we will call you and if anything happens don't be afraid to call us ok" Edric says as he keeps Emra at arms length away As she trys to both hit and hide behind him. A small smile creeps into my face as a half hearted sigh escapes and I pull Emra and Edric into a hug.

"Thanks guys" I let them out of the hug and head to my room and grab my wallet and a hooded jacket. I head towards my window and climb down the side of the house and using the falling night to cover my escape.

: Meanwhile in the bones borrow night market :

"Ok kid, do you want to learn how to pickpocket like a master" Eda says to me with a confident tone gesturing to herself when she says master. I let out a small smile as Eda demonstrates on a passing demon she shuffles past him as walks back to me holding his wallet with a grin. 

“Ok how am i supposed to learn anything if you make it look as if it looks like a simple swift grab” i say as eda walk over tossing me the wallet for me to open it finding no money. Eda grinns at me as she walks over to me.

"In a sense it is, but it's mostly having quick nimble movements and luck try it on the girl in the ugly looking jacket, she looks to be an easy mark" Eda says pointing to a girl in a dark purple jacket that looks to be a new sports jacket of some kind.

"Ok here goes I guess" I walk towards the girl when she takes off her hood to reveal she's the blight girl from before and she's also wearing my beanie I decided to call out to her instead of pickpocketing her "hey blight" the blight girl then looks over at me confused for a second then remembers who I am.

"You! I was hoping to run into you at some point!" She says a little pissed "no matter who I talked to and even paid to investigate you no one found anything who are you" she says like this has been losing sleep over this

"Well I don't know or remember my name so yeah what is your name" I say knowing full well she's probably not going to believe me

"Amity blight, and I don't believe you don't remember your own name" amity says with a exasperated and judgy tone, Eda walk up behind her clearly overhearing the conversation and speed up about it.

"He's telling you the truth blight, kid really doesn't remember his name, I mean he took a mean blow to the head" Eda say clearly trying to help solidify my truth even if both of us don't know what really happened to me. Amity looks at me skeptically before tossing my beanie to me.

"I'm done looking for you and keep the hat, it looks dumb anyway" I catch my beanie and pull my hair back over my shoulders then put my beanie on and as I look up to look at amity her face is pale.
"Your… your… your…  ears!! what's wrong with them!?" Amity almost yells at me with a hushed stuttery tone. I panicked I grabbed Eda's wrist and ran away from the night market towards the owl house.

:Back with Eda and amity:
The kid runs off with my hand out of the night market leaving me and the blight kid, who might I add is shocked to the point that she was frozen in place, you know I could easily swipe her wallet and she wouldn't even notice.

"What is he?! What's wrong with his ears?!" The blight kid finally managed to spit out what she wanted to say, I looked at her and grinned.

"Someone's out past curfew, I wonder how much your parents are willing to pay me to give you back" I say slyly, holding out my only hand left. The blight kid looks at me with disgust then gives me the money in her wallet.

"258 snails is all I have, that's good enough for you right" she says with clear venom in her voice, I nod counting the money.
"Good not take me with you to find him, I want some answers" she almost demands of me, without looking up from the money I'm counting.

"That sweetheart is going to cost you extra"

"How much"

"About four hundred snails should be good, but if you can't pay it, then your going to work it off working for me in your spare time, sounds fair enough" I say with a shit eating grin, finally looking up from the snails to look at the blight.

"I'm not working for you" she says in a huff, and in response I shove the money I have in my hand in my boob pocket, I then offer my hand of the money.
"I don't even have four hundred snails, I gave you all I had. Plus that took me years to save that much" she mumbles the last part. I look at her and grin