Another day at the market, another day for fleecing people. Another day of King trying to catch the flag above the stand like a cat. "Stupid flag!"

Luz returned holding a sign that said, "Eda the Owl Lady's" and added it to the "Human Collectables" sign. "It's been a little slow around here, but I've got just the thing to attract customers. And who doesn't like their name in lights?" She placed light spell glyphs around the sign and the words glowed like a neon sign and an image of Eda's winking face appeared. "Is it too subtle?"

"Does subtle mean ugly?" Standing in front of the counter was Boscha and some of her friends from Hexside.

Luz put on a friendly smile and said, "Hi Boscha! Hexsidians! See anything you like?"

Boscha made a disgusted noise. "Ew! No. I'm just here to take an ironic Penstagram next to your weird flashing trash sign."

Luz's smile disappeared as the three-eyed girl started taking pictures. "It's not funny Boscha."

"What are you going to do? Spit your human venom on me?"

King turned his attention away from the flag and toward Luz. "You have venom? Quick, Luz, start melting faces!"

"Even if I could, it's not worth it. You wouldn't understand how to handle teens like her."

"No, I'll show you what to do." King jumped onto the counter and pointed at Boscha. "You will tremble before me!"

But Boscha's reaction was not what he expected. "Oh, he's so cute!" She picked him up and took a selfie with him, much to his displeasure. "How much? I have to own him."

King squirmed out of her arms and onto the counter. "You couldn't afford me, sister!" Everyone went, "Awww!" King stamped his feet like a child having a tantrum and shouted, "That's the incorrect reaction!"

From inside the tent, Eda sniffed and said, "I smell an easy mark." She jumped out and tried to make a sale to Boscha. "Hey, kid! Can I offer you the latest fashions from..." She drew a spell circle and her usual attire turned into clothes that could have come from a thrift store in the early 1990s. "...the human realm?"

Boscha and her friends just laughed. "Yeah, no."

Eda frowned as they left. She went back to her normal clothes and said, "Well, I hate her."

"Yeah, teens can be sour, but I'm a little sweetie," said Luz. "Look what I made you!"

It was then Eda saw the sign her apprentice made. "LUZ!" She quickly tore it down.

"Did I spell something wrong?" Luz asked before asking with a little pride, "Or did I spell something right?"

"Stop that," Eda snipped at Luz's lame pun. "You may be forgetting something, Luz. I'm kinda... on the run!" She held up her wanted poster. "Remember? Every guard in town would be at my doorstep if I had my name in lights."

"Well, I don't see anyone right now. Maybe you're just being paranoid. You're a powerful witch. Why hide when you can 'poof' all your problems away with magic?"

"What does Luz know about problems anyway," King complained. "All she has is dumb teen drama! She doesn't understand how hard some of us have it."

"You're pampered all day like a dang baby. How hard is that life?"

"Well, I don't know if you realized, BUT I'M NOT A BABY!" King screamed.

"Then why are you screaming like one?" Luz teased him.

"MY LIFE IS A LIVING NIGHTMARE!"

Eda made a smirk and rubbed her hands together. "Well, there's only one thing to do when friends can't see eye to eye."

"Hug each other till we pass out?"

"Fight to the death!"

Eda just laughed at Luz and King's suggestions. "Pfft, no. Body swap!"

Luz and King blinked. The latter asked the former, "Are you sure you don't shoot venom?"

Eda chuckled as she pulled out her staff. "I love a good body swap. It's like demonic possession with the ones you love. Hey, Strix, you want in on this?"

Strix was reading a magazine, using the light spell as a reading light. He looked up and said, "No. Remember what happened the last time you, King and I swapped bodies?"

Eda tapped her chin. "Oh, yeah. You went crazy with my body and nearly destroyed half of Bonesborough. Maybe you should sit this one out."

Luz looked excited at the prospect of a body swap. "We're doing that? That's possible? This is just like my favorite early 2000s movie! Freaky Fraturday. But maybe we should think about this for a second."

Eda ignored her and cast the spell. "Body swap!" There was a blinding flash of light followed by gold smoke. "Did it work? I need a mirror." Luz ran to the mirror, bumping into it. "Found one." She took one good look at herself and realized she was in Eda's body. "Oh, my gosh. It worked! I'm so old... and pointy!" Then King approached the mirror. Only, he was in Luz's body. "Hot dog! It's me!"

"Yeah, it is. I'm the human now," declared King. "Bow before my massive, meaty hands!"

"Wait, so that means..."

"Ahem." King, Luz and Strix turned to see Eda in King's body, doing a pose on the counter. "How do I look?"

"I've got some very confusing emotions right now," said King.

"You look like a throw rug with a skull, Mom," said Strix nonchalantly.

"Hey! That's my body you're talking about!"

"All right, here's the deal," said Eda. "Whoever can prove their new body has the easiest life gets out of house cleaning duty. And you know what that means." Hooty had been wallowing in mud to entertain himself and the stench he gave off was getting worse every day, like a pile of fruit left to rot. Everyone shuddered at the thought of it.

"I like to add one more chore to the pile. The losers not only have to give Hooty a good hose down, but they have to also help me clean up after Selwyn."

"What's so bad about that, son?" teased Luz.

"Don't say that. And dragon dung burns like fire and the stench it gives off is like sulfur."

"Oh."

"Won't be me," said King. "Life as a teen is a tyrant's dream! By the end of the day, I'll be ruling over your feeble demographic."

"Well, I've got magic," Luz said with smugness. "Eda, don't be too mad when your inventory's gone and the guards are none the wiser." She cast a spell circle and accidentally sent a blast of magic up into the sky that sent her onto her back.

"Ha! That's cute. If you need me, I'll be getting pampered on a vacation fit for a king."

"My life's not a joke!" King shouted. Then he said to Luz, "But yours is... bap." He palmed her face before taking off, laughing.

Eda's Catastrophe

Eda, now sporting a pair of sunglasses, strutted down the street, taking in all the adoring and praising she was receiving from the people. "Look at that little baby!"

"Oh, hello."

"So adorable!"

"Yes, hello to you too, handsome."

"Stop right there!" Eda froze and turned around. There was a guard looking down at her, by his side was a dog with four snouts. "An Emperor's guard," she said, nervous.

"Thought you could get away with it, didn't you?"

Eda lowered her glasses a little. "Wait, you know who I am?"

"Of course, I do. You're... the cutest little angel I've ever seen! Who wants a lolly?"

Eda took the sucker from the sucker and laughed. "Ha! That's more like it." The dog sniffed her with its four noses and whined. "You got nothing," she taunted, slapping the lollipop on its face.

"Being King is a walk in the park. I'm gonna win this bet for sure." Eda suddenly bumped into someone. "Wha‐‐" She looked up to see two creatures resembling grannies wearing pink and blue outfits and yellow aprons with the words, "Kitty Cafe" on them.

"Oh, Dottie! Look at this lost little dumpling," the thin one, whose name is Roselle by the way, said to the fat one.

"What's that?" Roselle gently scooped Eda up in her arms. "Whoa! Hey, I'm not lost, you creeps!"

"Poor baby! Do you need us to make you a delicious meal?"

"No, I don't need you‐‐" Eda suddenly felt her belly being scratched. "Tummy scratches? Ooh. You know what? Maybe I am lost. Take me away, ladies."

The two women brought Eda to a small pink building with all kinds of small demons inside. Some were eating and drinking from bowls while others served customers. "Welcome to our kitty café," Roselle introduced the place. "This is our little safe haven for cherubs like you."

Eda grimaced at the prissy cuteness of the place. "Ugh... What hot mess is going down here?"

"You see, precious cargo like you should be taken care of." Roselle said as she patted Eda's head. "Boop! All you should have to worry about is how many belly rubs you want or how much tasty num‐nums you're gonna eat," she said as she set her down into a baby crib.

"Well, my creep alarm is ringing, but I can't argue with num‐nums," Eda said as she took a cupcake from Dottie.

"This place is a safe place. A place clean from the outside world. And those teenagers who filthen it. You have a good nap, my dearest. And welcome... to your new home." Roselle and Dottie walked into a door for employees only.

Eda tossed the cupcake over her shoulder and laughed. "Ha! Oh, being adorable is the life." She let out a yawn and stretched her arms out. "Time for a nap." She suddenly heard a meow and awoke to find a small cat demon wearing a tuxedo gripping the edge of the crib. It said in a frantic voice, "Leave this place! Danger is near."

"Baby demon! We have a surprise for you!"

Hearing Roselle's voice, Eda shoved the cat out of the crib and said, "You hear that, Bowtie? There's a new star in town."

The two women came out of the room and Roselle held up a tiny bumble bee costume. "A gift for our new, cutest demon."

That was the last straw. "Okay, I'm out. Novelty costumes are where I draw the line." Eda hopped out of the crib and headed for the door.

Roselle suddenly lost her grandmotherly facade and said to her cohort, "Dottie, please help our little angel get changed." Dottie let out a screech and jumped in front of Eda, blocking her way. "Oh, no, sweetie. You can't survive out there without us."

Eda was now in fighting mode and she prepared to draw a spell circle. "Ladies, stand back. I am not above disrespecting my elders." But then she remembered she was in King's body. "Oh, dang. I'm not a witch right now."

"No, baby. You're a cutie patootie," said Roselle as she tried to reach of her.

"Not today, sister," Eda shouted as she ran between her legs and headed for the employees only room. She then barricaded the door with a chair and backed off as the two women angrily pounded against it. Roselle shouted, "Let us in this instant! It is not time for you to be there!"

"Stop babying me!" Eda turned and expected to find a back door out. Instead, she found something out of a human horror film. Lining rows of shelves were little demons sitting in rocking chairs and they all had big, stupid grins on their faces. "This vacation just took an alarming, back‐alley turn," she said as she waved her hand in front of one of them.

"Tasty num-nums," he said. It looked like he didn't even know where he was anymore.

"Don't bother." The tuxedo-wearing cat demon appeared from behind a corner. "Their minds are tragically gone. They've been coddled so long, they forgot how to live on their own. Their brains turned to mush."

This was disturbing even for Eda. "Geez, I thought I liked being babied. But I feel so small and helpless, like some sort of... baby. But that won't happen to us, right?" Spoke too soon. Eda's new companion had suddenly been reduced to a mindless kitten playing with a ball of string. "I failed you, Bowtie. My closest ally."

"Meow, meow."

Suddenly, the two old ladies burst down the door and growled at Eda. "I'll avenge you, Bowtie," she exclaimed, grabbing the cat demon and tossing him in Roselle's face. While the ladies struggled with the cat, Eda looked out and saw a hole in the wall. She ran for it and crawled through, only to discover to her horror that she'd trapped herself in the café's display window.

The two women loomed over her, Roselle holding up the bee costume. "Oh, wonderful! Now everyone can see our bestest baby... forever."

"NOOOOOOO!"

King's Brush With Death

Meanwhile, King was having the time of his life in Luz's body, being tall enough to catch the flags that always was out of his reach. "Not so high and mighty anymore. I feel so alive!" Suddenly, not used to having such long legs, he tripped and ended up in a garbage can. Suddenly, a water balloon landed next to him and tentacles shot out of the puddle it formed. King backed off and said, "The flag, it seeks revenge." Not quite. He suddenly heard giggling and he turned to see two of Boscha's gang throwing water balloons at the streets, causing them to get grabbed by the tentacles hiding in the water. "Teenagers," he growled.

Crawling on all fours, King made his way to the hilltop, he found the teens' hideout: a shack with the words, "Treasure Shack" written above the door. He watched as the two teens continued to throw the water balloons. "Hey, take this, society!" one of them shouted only to accidentally drop it at his feet. "Oh, no." Tentacles shot out of the puddle and began to strangle him.

King poked his nose in the clubhouse's and looked inside. Posters of various bands hung on the walls, a music player sat on a table and a guitar sat on a chair. Boscha sat on a beanbag chair, recording her friend trying to do a sit up while wearing shoes that made him fly. She was unimpressed. "Just give up."

"I swear, I can do a sit‐up. I'm just having a bad day," her friend said.

"Sure you can."

King smirked. "I'll show Luz how to rule over these doofuses." He barged in and shouted, "Greetings!" He then realized he was still on all fours before he stood up right. "Er‐‐ Greetings! Bow before your king of humans!"

"Hey, nobody tells me what to do," the boy in the flying shoes snapped.

"Shut it."

"Sorry, Boscha."

Boscha picked up her scroll and wrote a new post, "New post: Loser human thinks she can hang out in our sacred Treasure Shack. Spoiler alert: She can't."

"Yeah, get out of here, Goody Two‐shoes," the boy mocked.

"Goody Two-shoes, huh?" King said, taking shoes right off his feet and making him fall flat on his face. King put the shoes on, flew outside and grabbed the bag of water balloons and flew up for all of Boscha's gang to see. "Hey, impressionable youths! Under my command, you could learn how to do some real damage." He tossed all the balloons at once into Bonesborough, resulting in the streets being flooded by giant tentacles that shook, tossed and slammed the people they grabbed. "All hail, your new teen king!" he shouted.

The gang was very impressed with him. The boy from before said, "I didn't like her telling me what to do before, but now, I love it." The only one not falling under King's sway was Boscha, who folded her arms and frowned at him.

"Who wants to revolt with me today?" King asked his new subjects, who gleefully followed after him. Though the one whom he stole the shoes from said he'll catch up.

Boscha shouted at her so-called friends, "Hold up. I did not give you permission to leave."

"All right, you acne‐encrusted hormone buckets. Let's go let out some teen angst!"

King and the kids pulled all kinds of pranks in Bonesborough. They randomly shuffled people's faces, though one guy already had a shuffled face, so they made his face normal, much to his horror. Next, they chanced a sign from "Self Storage" to "Elf Rage". An elf looked at the sign and said, "Yeah, this sign gets it!" The elf tore off his shirt, revealing his muscles and went on a rampage. The kids laughed until the elf saw them and chased after them.

Lastly, King took a crow phone and dialed the Owl House. "Guys, be quiet," he giggled. He heard the phone ringing and tossed it into a giant gramophone horn sign for a music store which amplified Hooty's voice, "Hoot House. Hooty hooting. Oh, wow. I've been waiting for someone to call all day, and now, it's finally happened! We can talk for hours, and hours, and hours, and hours..." The people of Bonesborough went crazy hearing the owl door knocker's voice. Some shoved pillows in their ears while others just sliced their ears off.

King bought everyone chips and laughed at his victory over Luz and Eda. "I don't know what Luz is talking about. This life is a breeze."

He spoke too soon as he bumped into Boscha who said with teen authority, "Enough! I don't know why they can't remember what a weirdo loser you are, but I'm gonna help them remember."

"Ooh, I'm so scared," King said sarcastically. "She still thinks she has power over you guys." No one laughed with him. "Guys?"

"Luz, I challenge you to a race... around Dead Man's Curve." Everyone gasped at Boscha's dare. Dead Man's Curve was a curving stretch of highway that was infamous for causing a high number of casualties. "And we'll be racing on those. Giant rat worms."

One of the kids said to King, "You don't have to do this, you know We know humans are, like, super fragile."

"DON'T BABY ME! Boscha, I accept your strange teenage, coming‐of‐age challenge thing."

The challengers met at the starting line right where Dead Man's Curve began. Although, King had trouble pushing his rat worm to the start. He managed to climb on top of his steed and glared at Boscha. One of Boscha's friends held a chip bag like a flag and said, "On your mark... Get set..." She took a chip out of the bag and at the second she crunched down on it, Boscha and her worm took off.

King had trouble controlling his, though. "Let's go!" The worm did not move. "Worm minion, I said go!" He slapped the worm on the rear and it took off. Unfortunately, King found himself riding it backwards. He screamed, "Stop! I said stop!" But the worm did not listen. King tumbled down the highway, yet to his and Boscha's surprise, he managed to catch up with her. He tried to play it off, "This is how the cool kids ride. Super backwards. On purpose." Boscha growled. Then she gasped when she saw something ahead and stopped her worm. King thought he was in the clear, not noticing the smirk on her face. "Yes! Say bye‐bye to your popularity, Boscha."

Boscha waved to him, "Bye‐bye."

King finally turned around and saw what made Boscha smirk, a sign that said, "Road out!" He let out a scream and tried to stop, but it was too late. He fell off the bridge and landed on the Treasure Shack, destroying it. King slid off his worm and squeaked, "Ow."

"Not the Treasure Shack!" Boscha's gang exclaimed. "I don't know how to process this. Someone tell me what to do!"

Boscha saw this as her opportunity to regain control. "GET HER!" They chased after King, who ran down the hill and into the streets of Bonesborough on all fours. "Get back here, human!"

King panted as he realized, "Luz was right. I can't handle the complexities of teenage life. I just want my body back!" He tripped over a paint bucket and landed on his face.

"I think I saw her go this way."

Quickly, King ran into the Kitty Café. He heard them fly by and sighed in relief. But he wasn't out of danger yet. Roselle loomed over him, armed with a broom. "Dottie! A teen has come to steal our little babies!" She chased after him with the broom, smashing a coffee table in the process.

"No, wait! I am a little baby!"

"No, you're not. You're a rotten teen! But when we finish with you, you'll be calling for your mother," Roselle growled as she sharpened her hair pins with her teeth.

"Lady, I just want my body back," King pleaded.

"You can have it," said Eda. She was still in the display window, and was wearing the bumble bee costume. "Your life is pretty terrible. But, hey, it'll probably be over soon." King gulped as the two old biddies loomed over him and snarled.

Luz's Deals In Heels

The first thing Luz had to accomplish in Eda's body? Walking in her stiletto boots. "Whew! Okay, let's try this again. And strut, strut, strut." She suddenly stumbled and fell face first into a crate. "How does Eda wear these all day?" She gasped when she saw she also destroyed a lamp in the process. "Oh, no. What have my heels done? Wait a second. I'm a ding dang witch!" She cast a spell circle, but instead of fixing the lamp, a blast of magic sent her flying into the stand. "Boy, Eda is powerful." She looked at her hand, only for more magic to blast out of her palm. "Aaah, not again!"

Luz had an idea. She took some oven mitts and poked a hole in them for her index fingers. "Okay, let's try this one more time." She cast a spell circle over the lamp. In a flash of light and a puff of gold smoke, the lamp was repaired. But Luz inadvertently turned it into a mishmash of lamps with human legs in the process. But that didn't discourage her and she cheered, "I made magic with my hands!"

A customer noticed the lamp and said, "Ooh, so unnecessarily extravagant. I'll take it."

Luz cast another spell circle and made the lamp walk with its new owner. "Zippo swappo. Sold to the savvy shopper." The customer gave her a coin as payment. "Okay, magic hands, let's see what else we can magically magic." With a snap of her fingers, she transformed the sign into a bright, flashing neon sign. With another snap of her fingers, Luz made a top hat with Eda's name on it land on her head and she called out like a showgirl, "Step right up and feast your eyes on the marvels of the human realm!"

The sign seemed to do its job and attracted a large crowd of customers. She turned her attention to one grumpy-looking man. "You're lights are too bright, and I forgot what I came here for," he complained.

"Was it for laughter," Luz asked as she levitated a feather duster and tickled him with it.

The grumpy man laughed out loud, "Joy! So painful. I'll take two for my enemies." He dropped a handful of coins onto the countertop.

Another customer that came was the centaur with a face on his torso. To solve his problem, Luz drew a face on his head. The next person she helped was a mother whose crying baby was having a fit. Luz stuffed a giant pacifier in the baby's mouth, calming it down. The mother responded by dumping her entire's child's life savings in the cash register.

After satisfying more customers, Luz waved them goodbye. "Thank you! Come again! There's a little something for everyone. Take it from me, Eda, the Boiling Isles' gift to magic."

At that moment, Strix returned, carrying a newspaper under his arm. "Hey, Luz. I'm back. Whoa! You really raked in the dough!" He started counting the coins as he asked, "How did you manage it?" It was only then he saw the big neon sign. "AUGH! Luzer, take that sign down!"

"What?! Why? I just got so many happy customers!"

"You idiot! Did you forget about Mom being the most wanted witch on the Boiling Isles?!"

"Oh, pfft. You're paranoid. I haven't seen a single guard all day."

"Is that right?" a man in a cloak said. "You're the famous Eda the Owl Lady?"

"That depends," said Luz. "Are you a fan... of magic?" She held out her arm and flowers popped out of her sleeve.

"No, but I am a fan of... the law!" The man tore his cloak off and revealed the bird mask and grey uniform underneath. The flowers let out a scream and wilted. Luz made a look of shock when another guard appeared and cuffed her and Strix. "We're finally able to catch you in the act. All thanks to this little light show of yours."

Luz remembered she still had magic, though. "Gentlemen, whaddya say we forget this whole thing ever happened? Amnesia spell!" Instead of giving the guard holding her amnesia, he wound up with a pacifier in his mouth. She chuckled nervously. "Haven't quite got the hang of this yet."

Strix glared at her. "I'm gonna kill you!" He jumped onto her shoulders and began to strangle her, but the two guards separated them.

The photographer at the police precinct, a literal cameraman, snapped their pictures; Luz made an expression of shame while Strix made a glare. "This is some of my best work. Really captures the shame."

One of the Emperor's Coven took Eda's staff and locked it in a shackle. "Yeah, you're going away for a long time, you filthy criminal," he said. Owlbert gave Luz and Strix a look that said, "Help me!"

"Owlbert!" Strix tried to reach him only to be grabbed by one of the guards brought to the interrogation room. Luz was dragged in as well by another guard as she tried to explain, "This is all a big mistake. You're gonna laugh when I explain." The guards didn't listen and they slammed the door.

Meanwhile, someone made their way into the precinct. Someone who made the Emperor's Coven gasp. Two guards watching the interrogation room through the one-way mirror didn't realize Lilith was standing behind them. "Hey, you gotta take that thing out before someone sees you," one guard said to the one sucking on the pacifier.

"I like it. Calms the nerves." It was only when they saw Lilith's reflection did the guard finally drop the pacifier in shock. "Madame Lilith, to what do we owe this honor?"

"Word reached me that you captured my sister and my nephew," said Lilith. "I'll take it from here."

"But Madame, they're going straight to the Conformatorium. I have the order right here."

In response, Lilith burned the order right out of the guard's hand. "The orders have changed."

"Look, guys, you got the wrong Eda," Luz tried to explain as Lilith entered the interrogation room. Strix let out a gasp when he saw her.

"Hello, Edalyn."

"Oh, thank goodness! A familiar face. You're Eda's sister, right? Is it Libby? No. Limby..."

"Your show of affection is touching." Lilith turned to Strix. "I hear you can do magic now. How did you pull that off?"

Strix made a voice of disgust before looking away from her. "I have nothing to say to you, Aunt Lilly."

Lilith sighed before turning to Luz. "Do you know why you're here?"

"Well, as I was telling the guard, this is just a classic Freaky Fraturday mix‐up."

Lilith pulled out a scroll so long it reached the floor. "Sister, the charges against you are long and many. Operating a stand without a permit, owning a hocus without a pocus..."

"The list is longer than that," said Strix.

"These charges are serious. There's no more running away, Edalyn."

Luz sighed. "I know. I can't just 'poof' my problems away."

"But we can," Lilith said hopefully. Strix didn't like that. "You getting caught was clearly a cry for help. Join the Emperor's Coven, like we dreamed about when we were girls. And we can break the curse on your son!"

Luz and Strix were stunned when she said that. "Wait, Mom wanted to join the Emperor's Coven?! She would never-"

"She hadn't told you?" Lilith asked, glaring at Luz. "Of course she wouldn't. Don't be afraid, sister. Soon, you won't be a danger to those around you. Bring out the branding glove."

"The what now?" Luz asked. Lilith bound Luz and Strix in magic chains while a guard approached them with a glove with a glowing Emperor's Coven symbol on the palm. "Wait, you're making a mistake! I'm not a danger to anyone!" Luz shoved the guard away, accidentally casting a spell circle in the process. "Uh‐oh." There was a huge explosion that destroyed the entire wall. Luz and Strix coughed a little before the former called out, "Owlbert, come to me!" Eda's staff fly into her hands and she undid the shackle chained to Owlbert. "Sorry, buddy. Eda's life is more complicated than I thought."

"YOU THINK?!" Strix shouted. "Eda and I told you not to put up that stupid flashing sign!"

"I'm sorry," Luz said as they ran out. "I should have listened!"

Lilith watched them run and let out a growl.

"Okay, if I were Eda and Eda is King, where would I be?" Luz asked as she and Strix ran. "Ah! This thing's so confusing."

"Wait! There they are!" Strix pointed to the Kitty Café, where King and Eda were pounding against the window. "Luz! Bring my dang body over here."

Inside the building, Roselle was having a conversation with Dottie. "Oh, look, Dottie. It's not kidnapping if they entered our store. Just think of it as good customer service." Suddenly, one of their lamps turned into a mishmash of lamps with human legs. "Why did our lamp get unnecessarily extravagant?" They heard the door jingle and turned to see Luz and Strix helping King and Eda escape. "AFTER THEM!"

"What weird stuff did you get my body into?" Luz asked as they ran only to bump into Lilith and her guards.

"There she is!"

"I got the same question," said Eda. They turned to run, only to run into Boscha and her gang.

"Dang! I forgot about them," groaned King.

"All right. Did everybody learn a valuable lesson about experiencing each other's hardships?" Luz and Eda said "Yes" to Eda. "Good, let's end this nightmare. Body swap!" Eda grabbed the staff, cast the spell and everyone returned to their proper bodies, though they still wore the clothes they had when they swapped.

"My body," King exclaimed happily. "My glorious little body!"

Eda destroyed the bumble bee costume, revealing her old outfit underneath. Lilith snarled at her, "Sister, time and again I've offered you and Strix my help, yet you foolishly run back to your worthless life. I'm tired of trying, Edalyn. Your days of running are over!"

"Thanks, Luz," Eda said sarcastically.

"Sorry."

"Don't worry, I got this. Body swap!" Eda cast the body swap spell again, only on their pursuers. Lilith, stuck in the multi-snouted dog's body, barked at her, "Eda, you rotten sister! Switch me back! Ah! Woof!" It was chaos and confusion as everyone tried to figure out whose body was whose.

"Are they gonna be okay?" asked King.

"Eh..." was all Eda said.

"Hold on, there's one more thing I want to do." Strix reached into his pocket and pulled out the Mask and put it on. "By the way, Aunt Lily, for a smart and powerful witch, you're pretty stupid. You can't even tell the difference between your own sister and a person who swapped bodies with her."

"The Mask?!" exclaimed Lilith and Eda at once. "Edalyn, you said you would have it destroyed!"

"Stop," said Strix, cracking his knuckles. "Wedgie time!" He spun around like a mini tornado toward the body swapped people, who let out a scream. Eda, Luz and King winced as he tied all their underpants together, tied it to Lilith's dog tail and tossed her over the horizon.

Eda suddenly snatched the Mask right off his face. "I told you not to wear it! How did you even get it?"

Strix sighed. "Remember when Luz and King stole your elixir? The spell broke when you didn't take it and became...well, the Owl Lady."

Eda frowned at him. "We'll talk about this later."

"Wait," piped up Luz. "Eda, I just wanna say that things can be more complicated than you think. But with you guys, it all feels a little less mixed up."

"Aw, that's sweet, kid. Now, let's never speak of this again." They all hopped onto Eda's staff and flew out of Bonesborough and toward the Owl House.

"So, wait. Who is going to clean Hooty? It's getting... dire."

"Guys? Today's my monthly cleaning. Hoot, hoot. I'm 20 percent mucus, but don't let that stop you. C'mon, I have so many hard‐to‐reach spots that need swabbing!"

"Everyone, actually," said Strix. "I said, the losers have to clean up after Hooty and Selwyn. You all lost, so you all have to do it."

"Oh-ho-ho-no!" snapped Eda. "You're not getting out of this! The bet's off!"

Everyone went, "Huh?"

"As punishment for taking the Mask, you're going to do it all! Cleaning Hooty and Selwyn's garage!"

"Aw, man."