Luz sat on her window sill, looking out to the Isles. Her cheek had a Healing Coven patch and her nose had a splint on it. Her eye still had a dark coloration surrounding it from her black eye, although it was lighter than before. It had been about three days since Nathaniel took Eda and Luz hadn't left her room, she hasn't spoken, she hasn't eaten. Luz's door opened and she didn't even bother looking to see who it was.

"Luz?"

It was Amity. Luz didn't respond, she just continued to look out the window.

"Luz, please say something."

"Did my father send you?" She said, emotionless.

"He's worried about you, we all are."

"I never asked him to worry about me. I never asked for anyone to worry about me! I never asked for him, mom, our friends! I never asked them to worry! I never asked you to worry!" Luz yelled, poking Amity hard in the chest for emphasis.

She started breathing heavily in anger for a few seconds before it slowly started to turn into sobbing. She wrapped her arms around Amity and started crying into her chest.

"It's my fault Ami! It's all my fault!"

Amity wrapped her arms around Luz and ran a hand through the back of Luz's head.

"It's not-"

"It is Amity! He was my family so this is my fault!"

It was quiet until a loud smack was heard. Luz held her good cheek in pain.

"Ow! Amity, why would you slap me?!"

"Because someone needs to smack some sense into you! Luz, it's not your fault it's his! Stop acting like you're some horrible person because of something your family did! You aren't! You are the kindest, sweetest, most caring witch on the Boiling Isles. This isn't you, Luz. Please, don't blame yourself for what happened. Please. For me."

Amity gave Luz a long, strong kiss to Luz before leaving. She looked at her bed and looked at the gift Eda made for her. A Witch's Wool cape. She put it on and grabbed her project.

"Violet, we have work to do."

Violet climbed on top of the black stick and locked herself on the interlock. It's taken her weeks but she finally has a staff with an interlock that matches with Violet's. She was going after him. She was going to get Eda back, no matter what. She made her way to the front door and almost made it when...

"Where do you think you're going?"

"Shit." Luz said under her breath, "Hello dad."

"Listen here young lady, I know what you're planning. You're going to try and fight Nathaniel."

"I have to get Eda back." Luz said, gripping her staff tightly.

"Luz, I can't let you."

"Dad, I can't just stand by and do nothing!"

"Enough, Luz. Go back to your room. I will handle this."

Luz angrily walked back to her room and slammed the door. She needed to get out of the castle, but knowing her parents, they've already placed guards around all of her escape tunnels and probably her back up tunnels as well. She heard a knock on her door and went to open it. On the other side was the last person she wanted to see.

"Lilith."

"Princess, I know I'm probably the last person you want to see."

"That's a fucking understatement." Luz growled.

"But I can help you. I know you want to rescue Eda and I can get you out of here."

"How?"

"I know of an escape that no one else knows of."

"Show me."

Lilith brought Luz to an old closet and placed a small gem on the door. The door suddenly had a blue shine to it and Lilith opened it. Instead of a dark, dusty room it was a blue portal.

"This should lead you to where she's being held." Lilith said.

She started to walk away as Luz stood in front of the portal.

"Lilith." Lilith turned around to face Luz, "Thank you."

Lilith had a small smile before continuing to walk away. Luz walked through the portal. She saw a large base surrounded by guards.

"How am I going to do this?" Luz started to wonder.

She didn't get to think for very long when something hard hit her on the back of the head. The only thing that she saw was darkness. When she woke up, her hands were tied up and connected to a chain from the ceiling. She looked down and saw her small undershirt that she always wore under her hoodie. The small white shirt was covered in red. She noticed large cuts on her stomach. They weren't that deep but they hurt like hell and she risked bleeding out. She felt the chain being broke and fell to the ground, hard. She winced in pain as she tried to crawl her way to a door.

"You aren't escaping." Nathaniel said "I admire your courage. But it will also be your end."

He sent a hard kick to her ribs and grabbed her by the collar of her shirt. He dragged her to what looked like a fight pit. Her cape and staff were dropped in front of her. She grabbed them and was left alone. She put her cape on and stood up. She leaned on her staff to avoid falling over. She heard a growl from the cage in front of her and went to see what it was. She was grabbed from behind and pulled back. A group of Nathaniel's guards started to kick and punch her. One of them brought out a large metal object.

"Like what you see? I'm sure you know what this is." One said.

She did know what it was. It was a brand. They heated up part of it and slowly moved it towards her eye as other's held her down. Best case scenario, she becomes blind in one eye. Worst case scenario, she doesn't want to think about it. The closer it got the more you could hear loud bangs on metal. It was only a few inches when something broke and the man holding the brand was tackled. His screams were cut off when the creature that tackled him bit his neck, killing him almost instantly. Luz was let go and the other's ran. Luz finally saw the creature that was eating the corpse of its kill.

"E-Eda?!"

Eda turned around and snapped the bone in her mouth in half. She stalked towards Luz and jumped on the injured girl.

"E-Eda! It's me! It's Luz! Don't you remember?"

Eda roared at her.

"I'm not going to hurt you Eda! Y-you're my friend! I won't hurt my friend!"

Eda raised her hand to deliver a final blow. Luz didn't fight it; she just closed her eyes.

"I won't hurt my friends. I won't hurt my friends. I won't hurt my friends." Luz repeated.

Eda brought her hand down as tears started to slide out from under Luz's eyelids.

"I won't hurt my family."

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