The Owl House: Not a Human? [Viney x Enby!OC]

Chapter 1-10: Sense and Insensitivity

I was relaxing in a chair at Mom’s stand after letting Luz sleep in a bit, my legs crossed and resting on the table, and I’m reading a book I found at the book fair earlier. Some jerk author was taking advantage of his readers and using them as a living throne, so I decided not to stay too long after picking up a book or two.

King holds up a tray of inedible human objects he’s trying to pass off as snacks, demanding, “Partake of my free snack samples! Take them; I demand it as your ruler, the King of Demons!”

Several demons and witches pass, but none even look at him, most just cowering away.

He throws his tray to the ground, exclaiming, “Nyeh! Why isn’t anyone paying attention to me? I’m their rightful overlord! Intellectually and such.”

I ask, “Uh huh. And how old are you?”

King rolls his eyes, deciding not to answer, and Mom grabs a passerby by the cowl, taking a couple sniffs.

She says, “It reeks more of nerd than money today.”

Luz exclaims, “Guys!”

Mom drops the passerby, and they run away in fear, clutching their book to their chest.

Luz continues, holding out a poster for the book fair that I had just come from, “You will not believe what’s going on! It’s a book fair! Where books come to life!”

A book literally comes to life and jumps off of one of the stands next to her, saying, “Hello.”

Luz screams and kicks it, and King asks, “A fair without rides?”

A demon boy excitedly shoves his book in King’s face, saying, “Who needs rides when this can take you anywhere?”

King grunts, “Nyeh.”

He throws a strip of bacon on the boy’s head, and a winged demon flies by and picks him up. The boy screams and drops his book as he’s carried away.

Mom says, “A; ew.” She kicks the book away, adding, “B; I’m bored. C; I feel like pickpocketing some dork while they browse.”

She walks off, and Luz exclaims, “No, wait!” She then sighs, and says to King, “Will you give it a chance? I’ll let you ride in my hoodie!”

She pops her hoodie out, and King excitedly chuckles, “Ohohohoho!”

He hops in, and Luz asks, “You coming, Mel?”

I respond, “Nah, sorry. I actually just came from the book fair a few minutes ago. Have fun, though!”

She shrugs and leaves, and I relax at Mom’s stand by myself for a while, just reading my new book while Mom tosses books left and right, deeming them boring. She eventually accidentally hits me directly in the face with one, and I growl a little, getting annoyed at her.

She finds a mirror in a book and gasps, muttering, “Another wrinkle! The curse is quickening!”

I annoyedly scoff, asking, “Are you sure you’re not just aging? Wrinkles tend to happen, Mom.”

Mom responds, “No, it’s the curse all right. Believe it or not, but Lily’s older than me.”

And speaking of the devil, we hear my ‘dear’ aunt’s voice not far away. Mom ducks behind a banner to hide just in case, holding a finger to her lips to signal for me to be quiet. I just roll my eyes and try to go back to reading my book but I can’t since Lilith’s being so loud and I can see her in my peripheral vision.

She says to a demon merchant at a booth nearby, “You, lackey. Do you have the item we discussed?”

The merchant responds, “Oh! Yes, right here.”