Ties that bind

Chapter 4

Authors note: I decided to combine the two since it would fit. This will take place a few weeks after the first few chapters and after the finale.

And that's why we call her Mittens!" Edric exclaimed laughingly resting his arm on Amity's head. Amity quickly pushed his arm off puffing her cheeks as her face flushed red.

"Aw what a cute story" Luz said resting her hand on her palm gently placing her elbow on the stand. Luz has always wondered why the twins called her Mittens. Luz noticed Amity's reddened face and tried to comfort her "if it makes you feel better it is a cute nickname- mittens" Luz said with a smirk written on her face raising an eyebrow.

"You see even your girlfriend thinks it's a cute name!" Laughed Emira nudging Amity's shoulder. Luz noticed a girl approaching the stand and quickly alerted Eda and the blights. "Guys customers act like you want to buy this" Luz said gesturing to a lamp shade.

"Ma'am can you maybe tell us what this thing is?" Emira said trying to sound convincing. Luz quickly picked up on her and replied "why this ma'am is the latest fashion in the human realm!" Luz said showing off the lamp shade over hyping the useless object.

Luz's statement entrapped the girl to her scam as she walked up to Luz. The girl stood about Emira's height with a bard track uniform. "She must be an upperclassman" Luz thought to herself. Luz and the girls green eyes met and Luz instantly knew this would be an easy sale. Luz has seen Eda scams people all the time how hard could it be? "Is it some sort of like hat?" The girl said ignorantly. "Uh... why yes! All the humans are wearing this luxurious hat it's what "in" right now" Luz pitches hoping she'd sold the girl.

"How much is it?" She asked Luz. Luz's hands became sweaty quickly, this was Luz's first scam and the nerves were settling in. Luz looked to Eda and Eda gave Luz a double thumbs up with an ear to ear smile. Luz knew what she had to do and put on her poker face and said "the usual price in the human real is 120 but I'll sale it to you for 90" Luz said in her most convincing voice. The girl reached for her bag before getting interrupted by Emira "I'll buy it for 95 snails!" Emira yelped. Luz knew exactly what she was doing and went along with her. The girl noticed Emira's challenge and narrowed her eyes reaching for her wallet once again.

"I'll buy it for 100" the girl said pulling out her coin bag. "I'll buy it for 105" Emira said once again raising the price. The girl once again reached into her coin bag and said "I'll buy it full price!" She said finally ending Emira's betting. Emira subtly winked at Luz as the girl handed her the 120 snails. Everyone waited for the girl to leave with her new "hat". When she was finally out of ear shot everyone started laughing. Eda walked up to Luz and ruffled her hair while "baby's first scam" she said.

"I saw her and I immediately knew it was gonna be easy" Luz said scratching the back of her head. Luz turner to Eda, "That's my girl natural instinct for the art of the scam!" Eda said while grabbing more garbage. "Dang cutie you picked up on my hints right away" Emira said leaning on hands on her hips. Luz laughed at Emira, they had good chemistry. Both of them had seen the girl and knew instantly what to do. Luz didn't even have to ask for help Emira had just done it it was if they were reading each other's mind.

"Anyways what brings you by our humble establishment other than adorable stories?" Luz asked leaning on the stalls table. "Oh well we wanted to-" Amity tried explaining but her voice soon blurred along with everything else. Something was happening to Luz a tingling in her head calling her. This feeling had soon manifested into a red mist floated in the wind beckoning Luz to follow. Luz slowly began drifting from the stand following the feeling. Her drifting soon turned into a walk then to a jog the to a full on sprint through the market ducking and dodging people.

"Luz!" Amity yelled chasing after her crush wondering what had gotten into her. This was unlike Luz to just run off like this especially when her and Eda were at the stand. Amity tried to keep up with Luz but she was unusually fast.

"Where is this leading to?" Luz thought to herself still continuing to follow the strand of red in the air. For some reason Luz couldn't stop herself she had to follow the feeling it made her feel safe. She continued on her journey to find the source of this feeling.

"Did you find her kid?" Eda said catching up to Amity holding her chest lightly panting. The twins and king shortly caught up to them with a confused look on their faces. "Did y'all...find her?" Edric asked panting while holding on to his knees. "Does it look like they did?" Said Emira also panting leaning against a nearby stand. "What do you think happened?" King said climbing into Eda's hair. Eda looked up at king slightly annoyed "I don't know it's not like her to just run off like that" Eda said as she turned to the twins. "Do either of you two know a tracking spell?" She said gesturing her hand around the two. "Emira does, she doesn't trust Ed by himself" Amity said pointing to Emira while Edric furrowed his eyebrows. "Great use it to find Luz" Eda exclaimed cheerfully. Emira looked back at the owl lady with a lopsided smile chuckling nervously. "Well ma'am it's not that easy I need something of hers to attach to the spell" she said shrugging her shoulders. Eda looked disappointed scratching her chin.

While the group was standing there trying to come up with a plan king quickly popped out of Eda's hair with a sock. He started waving the sock like a flag "this sock belongs Luz!" He yelled throwing it to Emira, Emira fumbling to catch the sock finally catches it and casts the spell. A golden thread suddenly appeared around Emira's finger "alright all we have to do is follow the thread and it will lead us right to Luz" she said as she started walking.

Every step Luz took the feeling got stronger and stronger. The feeling felt like it was right in front of her face now she could tell the source was hear until BAM! Luz bumped into someone sending her to the ground. "Ouch" Luz said rubbing her head as she looked up. Luz couldn't believe what she saw. Luz couldn't tell if what she was seeing was real or just a hallucination from hitting her head.

"Dad?" Luz cried looking at the man that stood before her.