Calamitous Intervention

Blinding Flights

Previously on Calamitous Intervention

Anne, Eda, and King were at the stand, selling stuff from the Human Realm as per usual when Boscha and her friends decided to butt in and make fun of them. After that, they were bored so Eda decided to do a Body Swap spell. In King's body, Eda had a close call with a guard before deciding to take advantage of her cuteness to make easy snails. After a close encounter with Lilith, she decided to go to the slayground where she was forced to play with the usurper.

In Anne's body, King headed up the cliff to the Treasure Shack where he saw Boscha and her goons. He decided to make them his goons and threw the bag of water balloons, creating massive tentacle monsters. However, two Glandus kids named Bria and Gavin stopped the monsters and offered to take King to a candy shop. There, he had fun until Boscha entered the shop and slapped him after he insulted her. Upset, he ran to the slayground to where Eda was to get some comfort.

In Eda's body, Anne quickly got bored of running the stand, so she took off on Owlbert to fight Lilith and teach her a lesson. Unfortunately, she quickly lost, which resulted in her being captured. She was about to be branded with a sigil when she turned into the Owl Beast and fled to the slayground. Eda, King, Bria, and Gavin took her on and managed to suppress her with difficulty, but Lilith and the guards arrived to capture Eda once more. Thinking quickly, Eda used the Body Swap spell on all of them as a distraction.

Later, at the Owl House, Anne decided to reveal the Calamity Box to them, but they had no idea what it was.

Chapter Eighteen - Blinding Flights

A couple of weeks before Eda and King met Anne, the two were passing time at her Human Collectibles stand, Eda sitting front and center behind the counter and King napping on the table, well within her eyesight.

The stand had been pretty empty for the most part, but Eda didn't mind too much–Sunday afternoons had always been pretty slow and she had a very busy Saturday, so she was pretty content for the time being. The witch was passing the time playing on a 3DS that she snagged from one of Owlbert's trips.

As she casually played on her handheld, not focusing on her surroundings, she heard a young female clear her throat. She looked up, slightly annoyed to see a teen girl with a bold hairstyle and a pierce on her ear waiting in front of the counter.

"Oh, hello there," Eda greeted Viney, putting her game away. "So, what relics from the Human Realm would you like to snag? Maybe this little carpenter figurine?" She showed the intrigued teen a small figure of a red plumber holding a fireball on a gold round base.

"Or how about this weird hobo poster for your room?" she continued as she displayed a large, slightly folded poster of a middle-aged man with strands of gray hair standing in a recording studio. "This guy's got quite the hairstyle. I'll tell-"

Viney cracked up, interrupting the witch and making her smile disappear. "I'm just looking for some gaming equipment," Viney told her. "I heard you might have a big multi-sided die from the Human Realm?"

Eda waved this off. "Pssh, easy. I have like thirty of those. Could never really understand what the appeal is, though."

Viney grinned, rubbing her hands together. "I knew I was onto something good. I always like to scour fairs and small stands because the owners don't know the real value of some of these items, so they're dirt cheap," she told Eda.

As she took some snails out of her bag, she continued, "Main con is you might not always find what you're looking for, though, but when you do, you can get yourself a pretty awesome deal, and even get to meet some interesting folks. On the other hand, if I were to visit a game shop or large store, you can usually find what you're looking for, but since the owners know what they have, they charge you much more."