Spoilers for season 2 episode 11. That episode broke my heart so I wrote this.


"Well, trying to use Kikimora as proof that someone can live in two worlds at once was a bust," Luz sighs, settling onto the roof beside Eda.

Amity pecks her on the cheek, and her face turns bright red. "You'll figure something out, sweet potato."

She looks over at Eda, fully expecting her mentor to laugh and tease the couple about their nicknames. Or tease Luz about how much she's blushing. Though Luz saw earlier how blushy Eda got around Raine, she doesn't have any high ground in this argument. But Eda stays silent. Completely out of character for her. Her eyes are focused on the bard float, where Raine Whispers is standing. That wasn't the plan. "Eda? How did it go with Raine?"

Eda's face crumples for just a second before returning to blank. "Badly." She doesn't elaborate.

"Raine?" Amity asks.

Luz gives Eda a look, asking for permission to spill the Raeda (as she's dubbed them, much to King's amusement and Eda's embarrassment) backstory, and Eda just shrugs. So she channels every ounce of fangirl screaming within her and starts rambling. "Raine is Eda's... boyfriend? Girlfriend?"

"Partner," Eda corrects quietly. Her jaw tightens. "Ex-partner."

"Raine is Eda's ex-partner. They're head of the Bard Coven. Over there, with the green hair. They were leading an anti-Belos rebellion, and Eda joined, but a few weeks ago they got caught. And Raine sacrificed themself for Eda, isn't that romantic?" She waits for Amity to nod before continuing. "So Eda wanted to use the Coven Day Parade to check on them, make sure they were okay, and we were hoping Raine would just come back to the Owl House with us, but..." Looking back over at Raine on the float, she says "Things didn't exactly go as planned."

Entirely without humor, Eda laughs. "That's one way of putting it."

"What happened?" Luz doesn't want to be nosy- that's a lie, she totally wants to be nosy- but she also wants to see if her mentor is okay. Even when her curse was at its worst, she always put on a smile and assured Luz it was nothing to worry about. If she's not holding up her facade... things must be bad.

Eda slumps forward to rest her chin in her hands. "They don't remember anything," she says, tone flat. "According to them, they've been sick in bed for a month. Except for the minor detail that I was with them as recently as three weeks ago, and they weren't sick then."

"They might have been lovesick, hoot hoot!"

When Eda refrains from threatening Hooty, Luz reaches out to put a hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry."

She shrugs it off. "They don't remember that we were in that rebellion together. They probably don't even remember the BATTs, and as far as they know, we haven't spoken in years. So they don't remember us catching up, or me saying I missed them, or-" she cut herself off, shaking her head.

Luz takes Amity's hand in hers, like she needs the confirmation that her girlfriend hasn't disappeared in the last two seconds. "Eda, I- can I do the 'parallel arm thingy?'"

Her voice sounds thick as she says "Okay, kiddo, you can do that parallel arm thingy."

As soon as the words are out of her mouth, Luz wraps her arms around her mentor. Eda breathes shakily and rests her chin on Luz's head for a count of five before lifting her gaze back up. "We dueled," she muttered. "They felt bad, but... they still tried to hurt me. I couldn't bring myself to hurt Rainstorm."

"Rainstorm?" Luz can't resist repeating.

"That's almost as cute as sweet potato," Amity adds.

Eda sighs and pries Luz off of her. Blinking rapidly, she says in a shaky voice "It-it's fine. It's okay."

"It's not okay," Luz insists, wishing Eda would just admit she was hurting.

"It's fine, Luz. We broke up forever ago and I was fine then and I'm fine now."

Helpfully, Hooty contributes "Hoot hoot, she wasn't fine then! She spent all day eating ice cream and sobbing, hoot hoot!"

"No one asked for your opinion, Hooty!" Eda snaps.

"It's okay to still care about them," says Luz. "I bet they still care about you too."

She snorts. "Yeah, considering they told me to never contact them again, I doubt that."

"I bet they didn't mean it," Amity says.

Eda tears her gaze away from the Bard Coven float. "They meant it. But whatever. If they don't care, I don't care either."

"Stop running away from your feelings, hoot hoot!"

"Watch me," snaps Eda, and she hops onto Owlbert and flies away.