Missing

Chapter 4: Entries

The trip back to the manor was better thanks to the company of Edric and Emira. As much as they typically annoyed Amity from time to time, they recognize when their little sister is upset and always puts her above everything else to cheer her up, and this is no exception. The young Blight girl must've been in a lot of conflicting emotions right now, and the older siblings wanted to make her a top priority.

It made Amity feel better too. Having the company of them helped keep her mind off the negative parts of everything she saw and thought of today. It was a nice change that kept her head up throughout the way back. 

Luckily for both Amity and the older siblings, the parents haven't arrived yet, and they used this time to quickly get back to their rooms as if nothing ever happened, agreeing they would get up early for the mission. After the past few hours being out, laying in her bed again felt very relieving to Amity, especially on her leg. 

Her leg wasn't exactly in pain, but after a full few days being stuck in bed, the sudden movement in her body definitely felt very weird on her foot, which made traversing around fairly weird today. She wondered how she was gonna do it tomorrow, but she figured she would worry about that tomorrow when the time comes.

Laying in her bed, the only things that accompanied Amity once again were her own thoughts, but for the time being, they weren't her inner demons yet. They were just thoughts about the plan tomorrow. She wondered how she would manage to get in with everyone. On that thought, she realized that she doesn't even know where Luz is located in the castle. Once again, Amity really couldn't do much about that until tomorrow. She was fairly certain that she would figure where everyone was.

Soon enough, she ran out of thoughts for tomorrow, and her inner demons started festering her mind afterwards. They didn't start tolerant either. They went straight into the stuff Amity didn't want to think about. She thought about failing. Possibly messing up whatever happens tomorrow, and risking Luz's life. She knew that if anything went wrong, Luz was dead. That idea gripped itself to her mind. Other fears included how Luz was gonna be when she found her. Other than the "being too late and finding her dead" fear, she was scared to see the girl all bruised up and injured. Amity never seen Luz injured. In a weird way, she never thought of the girl badly hurt because of her happy and bubbly attitude. It would be very jarring to see someone like her be badly hurt, and the witch knew that she was gonna have to see that for herself very soon.

For around 20 minutes, she layed in her tomb of a bed, stuck with these thoughts that showed no end of stopping, relentless fears about Luz and the plan tomorrow that drove Amity crazy with anxiety. After the 20 minutes of the thoughts, the witch had enough. She thought about something that would distract her, something that would make the thoughts end, anything, and her attention went towards something that was left behind in the shattered remains of the Owl House. Something that was always in the possession of the human.

Luz's phone.

As much as seeing the phone itself was a constant reminder that Luz was gone, she found it interesting. Obviously it's a device that the Boiling Isles didn't have, and its design itself did interest Amity's attention away from her mind. While she was fiddling with it though, she accidentally turned it on and was greeted with the video again. She heard Luz's scream from the video and she immediately panicked. She pressed everything she could to get the video to stop, and after 5 seconds of random pressing on the screen, she clicked on the album folder and found a bunch more videos.

The videos were in the same format as the one that's been haunting Amity all day, but instead of a terrified face full of tears, she saw the face that she grew to love. The cheery and innocent smile as the thumbnail for every video made Amity smile at the phone. Looking around, she noticed the title of the folder in the upper left corner.