House of the Cursed

Moonlight Conjuring

Eda was remarkably proud of Luz, though she did have to have everyone help dispel all the light orbs as it was making the house rather blindingly bright.

"Luz, I get you were excited about being able to do magic but did you really have to put light orbs everywhere in the house?" Amity said, not believing she had to stuff herself into the support of the lower roof to dispel one of the light orbs.

"I thought it would give the place more of a warm homey feeling, and also I didn't think so many of them would float off once I made them," Luz said, admitting the last half much more reluctantly.

"Well. Aim for the windows if you're not sure about that next time," Amity said.

Luz seemed to give the thumbs up in accepting that tip then hurried up with the task.

The next day had gone rather similarly, save for no large amount of light orbs everyone had to clear up which led to free time for the young witches now that their homework was complete.

"Hey Amity, wanna join in on playing some Beast Dice?" Willow said as Luz, Gus, and she had sat down with their dice to play.

"Sure, give me the pink ones," Amity said, sitting down next to Luz and holding her hand out to Willow who was holding the dice bag.

They then played a few rolls with each other. Willow playing with the chimeras, Gus with the basilisks, Luz with the unicorns and Amity with the griffins.

Several rolls which were only interrupted when Luz noticed Eda playing a card game with Owlbert that had resulted in several of said cards growing sharp teeth and growling at each other before some of them were set on fire.

"Woah! Eda, what's this that you're playing?" Luz asked.

Eda shuffled her cards before she got to explaining.

"What you see here is Hexes Hold em'. The most tricky game on the Boiling Isles, any decent witch knows how to play." Eda said.

"That's not exactly true," Amity said, crossing her arms and taking the comment a bit personally. Having never learned how to play and she had planned to never do so.

"Kid, it's not your fault you were being taught by Lilith most of your life but you are at fault for not taking the initiative to learn the past six months you've been here now," Eda said.

Amity sighed before trying to dissuade Luz from her interest.

"Don't mind Eda on this one, Luz. Hexes Hold Em' is a gambler's game, it will bring you nothing but trouble." Amity said.

"Luz, your friend is still a bit caught up with her high society morals but if you always play your cards right then you can never go wrong. What you should always remember is the wild card." Eda said, demonstrating the card's power by playing it and setting Owlbert's half of the deck on fire again.

"Um, Eda. You're feather sprouting again." Willow said, pointing at Eda's arm in concern.

"Ah!" Eda looked at her arm with worry once she saw that she was sprouting feathers as was usual for her curse.

Joining in seeing if Eda had extra elixir in her supply box everyone was scared to see every single bottle was empty.

"How do you not have a single elixir in here?!" Amity asked in shock.

"I've been really busy in case that's escaped your notice," Eda said.

"Busy playing that card game, you're obsessed!" King said.

"I am not. I can stop whenever I'd like." Eda said.

"Apparently that means not right now," Amity said.