Ch. 8: The Library

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A week later, Luz was meditating outside... no, she was not on the ground, she was literally floating a good four feet off the ground surrounded in a black aura, when King walked by. Luz opened an eye and looked at him carrying a basket inside.

'Okay, my dark mediation can wait, I need to see what he's doing.'

Luz floated to the ground and walked to the house, her dark aura fading away in the wind.

"Maybe it's an offering from one of my admirers. I am pretty famous in the wild magic community." Eda said with a grin.

"Or maybe it could be for Luz? An offering for her to be merciful?" King said.

"Ahahahahahahaha! Good joke." Luz laughed.

"Well, only one way to find out."

Eda pulled on the blanket covering it, revealing a bat. Luz put her hands up.

"I don't eat babies, and I'm too young to be a mother, so that is NOT my offering." Luz said, walking to the other side of the room.

"A baby? Ugh, witches stopped eating babies in the 1600s!" Eda said, crossing her arms.

King pulled out a note.

"Please look after my baby while I run errands, yiyi?" King read.

"Babysit? Eda the Owl Lady is nobody's babysitter." Eda said, turning her head away.

Luz looked at the note in King's hands and saw the person that signed it.

"Hey, who's the Bat Queen?"

"Bat Queen? As in "the richest demon on the Boiling Isles" Bat Queen?" Eda asked before she suddenly checked the basket.

She smiled widely as she pulled out some snails, already excited about being paid for this.

"So she's rich and she asked you to babysit her kid?" Luz asked, looking at the baby and saw a glimpse of a bat wing.

"Oh yeah, kid! And if you do a favor for someone like her, you could practically be set for life if you cash in on that favor right!" Eda said, putting the snails in her pocket, "Speaking of favors."

Eda made a spell circle and a stack of books fell into Luz's arms, not that it did anything to shake her, she was incredibly strong.

"I need you to return these to the library for me." Eda said, before whispering to King, "I don't want her to get a cut of the loot."

"You know I can hear a pin drop from over a mile away, right?" Luz asked.

"I did NOT know that actually but you still aren't getting a cut." Eda said as King took out some snails himself.

"So you wanna be like that? Fine. But don't come crying to me when you can't handle taking care of a demon baby." Luz said as she walked to the front door. "Or if Hooty eats him."

Luz closed the door, just in time for her to hear loud crying and Eda's cry.

"LUZ!"

"Huh... must be hearing things." Luz said, smiling.

Luz carried all of the books with one hand as she walked to the library, leaving Eda to learn her lesson on her own. She arrived at the library and smiled. She walked up the steps and opened the door. She walked into the library and the books suddenly started floating away from her. She looked at the library worker at the front desk.

"Late. Late. Late." He said, as each book went through the spell circle.

He grabbed one.

"Coffee, grass, and bloodstains? These are Eda's, aren't they?"

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