Prometheus

Chapter 28: Truth and Reconciliation

Chapter 28: Truth and Reconciliation

Outside of the Owl House, several familiar faces could be seen standing near the stone wall in the front yard, all surrounding some kind of contraption. Eda, King, and Hooty watched as the four other individuals were at work. Flint could be seen with a continuous flame emitting from her finger like a blowtorch as he welded various sheets of metal together. Luz could be seen looking over both Flint's notebook and Philip's journal, cross-comparing details about Flint's designs and the information provided to them by the journal with her palisman egg sitting in a fanny pack on her side. Amity could be seen with an abomination-colored wristband on each hand and directing an abomination as it held some of the mechanical components in place, before looking over to the fourth figure.

"Does this look right?" Amity asked.

The fourth figure had a pair of goggles over their eyes as they traced their hand over the blueprints sprawled across a table made of solidified abomination sludge. They looked up and toward Amity, analyzing her work.

"Yes, I believe so." The figure stated, revealing themself to be Alador. The man walked up with a blowtorch-like device and proceeded to weld the metal in place. After the job was finished, Alador stepped back to the blueprints as Amity used an ice glyph to emit a cold mist onto the metal, cooling it quickly.

"Thanks again for the help Aladork," Eda said as she walked up to him.

"On the contrary. I should be thanking you all instead." Alador denied. "I've never had an opportunity quite like this. Creating a doorway to another realm is something I'm certain very few alive could ever claim. I've also found myself quite fascinated by human technology. Technology powered without the use of magic at all? School bells that don't scream? A web that spans the whole world? It's rather inspiring actually." Alador said with his excitement and curiosity on display.

Alador then glanced at his daughter. "And an opportunity to do something with my daughter," Alador said before turning to glance at Luz and Flint as they did their parts. "Not to mention helping these two in reuniting with their mothers, or meeting the ladies that raised such nice kids myself, considering what they've done for me and my family," Alador added.

Eda smiled. "Yeah, I'd like to meet them too...and apologize for blackmailing the two," Eda said sheepishly before tapping her chin in thought. "I mean, I suppose I did technically kidnap them as well," Eda said aloud after a bit of thought.

"I want to make it clear I do not support such actions, but thank the Titan you did," Alador said with relief before looking over at Amity. "This is the happiest I've ever seen Amity in my life. She told me about Abomutating the other day. She hasn't managed to control it much since, but even hearing that she could do that amazes me with how much she's grown." Alador revealed.

"I was gonna see if I could talk to Dariboy about helping her since he can do it too," Eda said.

Alador shook his head. "No. I'll be the one to do it. She's my daughter, it should be my responsibility to do so...even if I haven't been a good father all this time."

Eda slapped his back, causing him to stumble a bit. "Well, better late than never, Aladork. Besides, you were still leagues better than Odalia even before you started paying attention," Eda said with a grin.

Alador shook his head fondly at his once-classmate as Flint and Amity stepped away from the door.

"Okay...I think we're about ready." Flint said.

"You remembered to connect the thought-to-magic receiver?" Alador asked.

"Yep." Flint nodded.

"Connected the stabilizing cables from each corner?" Alador added.