(Author's Note: Tales Of Light And Blight is being written as part of Lumity Week! This story, and all the other stories featured in this work, are part of an anthology, and unlike my other anthology stories, most of these are loosely connected to each other, with 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 able to be enjoyed in sequential order. They're not, however, connected to any of my other Owl House stories. Thanks for reading!)
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Day 7 – Future ("Two Witches, Two Worlds, One Heart")
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The streets of Bonesborough were normally a peaceful, albeit somewhat weird place... but on this particular day, as a gang of five club wielding trolls walked down the street, smashing booths and seizing treasures, those streets became a place of dread for the innocent citizens there.
"Fear and tremble before the might of the Smasher Gang!" shouted the trolls' leader, a tall creature twice as tall as an adult human, with thick limbs and a club the size of a small tree trunk. "Give us all your gold and shells, and we won't smash you to pieces!"
The trolls laughed, and weren't fazed when a young man attempted to fire a spell at them... the leader's thick skin repelled the magic, while the man soon found himself facing the entire gang, helpless before them.
"So, you wish to be made an example of?" said the lead troll, raising his club.
"No... no, please! I was just trying to... tickle you!" shouted the terrified man, falling to his knees and begging for his life.
"Well then, allow me to tickle you!" shouted the leader, laughing as he began to bring his club down. Suddenly, he found his wrists trapped by a thick cord made of glowing magic, stopping him in mid-swing. He looked behind him to see a tall woman with long, flowing light green hair and brown roots, wearing a white cloak and wielding a large staff. "Who are you?"
"I am Amity Blight-Noceda, leader of the Sisters' Coven and defender of the Boiling Isles," said the woman, in a proud, confident voice. "Drop your weapon and surrender, or face the coven's wrath!"
"You must be joking!" shouted the leader, though he looked clearly distressed as he attempted to break free of the cord that Amity was projecting from her staff. "Release me or die!"
"Uh... uh, Grunk?" said one of the other trolls, nervously pointing at Amity. "She's... a really powerful witch, maybe we should-"
"Stop cowering! She's just a witch, we're trolls, we're bigger and we outnumber her!" the leader bellowed, finally freeing his wrists from Amity's spell. "Crush her!"
"Big mistake," said Amity, projecting another spell from her staff as the four trolls reluctantly charged at her. With a single wave, she blasted them with a burst of magical energy, knocking all of them down. Then, she slammed her staff into the ground, causing the ground to liquefy around them and forcing them to sink before re-hardening, trapping them all in a squirming, writhing mass of solid earth.
"You little...!"
Grunk ran toward Amity at full speed, using his club to swat away her energy spells, then swinging it down toward her. She leapt away with an athletic somersault, before swinging her staff at him again, generating several more energy cords in an attempt to bind him. Grunk roared as he was briefly tangled, but used his sheer strength to snap them all.
"Stronger than the average troll..." Amity mused to herself. She started to conjure up another spell, but stopped when she saw someone running up behind Grunk. "You're late."
Another woman, clad in a purple cloak with a cat-ear hood, was running up to Grunk as fast as her long, thin legs would carry her. Her long, black hair was tied in a ponytail behind her head, and she wore a belt with several pockets that looked like they held decks of cards.
"Sorry, I was teaching somebody how to use a Playstation! He thought you had to rip off the entire top half of the system to play games!"
"Well, Luz, I've almost got these trolls beat, so-"
"The hell you do!" shouted Grunk, stomping the ground near Amity. The force of the stomp came as a bit of a surprise, and Amity was knocked off her feet, falling to one knee. Grunk laughed, and raised his club. "Time to smash a little witch!"
"I don't think so!" shouted Luz, pulling a card from her belt and slamming it down onto the top of her hand before flicking it toward the troll at incredible speed. The card transformed into a burst of electricity that hit the troll and shocked him, forcing him to stumble away from Amity and toward Luz.
"I'll get you!" the troll cried, recovering quickly from the shock, only to be hit by two more cards. The first one turned into ice that froze his legs together, while the second slammed into his club, turning it into syrup and causing it to fall all over his head and arms. "Aaaaaaagh!"
As Grunk began falling to the ground, knocked off balance by both spells, Luz pulled out a staff of her own and used it to pole-vault over his head, landing next to Amity as Grunk hit the dirt, falling hard on his face.
"Sorry I didn't come more quickly," said Luz, reaching down to help Amity up.
"It's okay... it's our job to help people in any way we can, whether it's by beating up trolls or helping them fix their human world junk," replied Amity with a smile.
"Hey, the original Playstation is not junk! You can play three different Final Fantasy games on it, plus Tactics!"
"I don't even play your new PS6," said Amity, rolling her eyes but still smiling as she admired the job she and her wife had done. Grunk's four subordinates were still trapped, while Grunk himself lay groaning in pain on the ground. The moment he tried to move, Amity gave him a quick zap with her wand, rendering him unconscious. "And the Sisters' Coven is victorious once again."
"Yay!" shouted Luz excitedly, hugging Amity tightly. "Looks like Bonesborough is safe, which means we can go visit my mom now, right?"
"I'm pretty sure, let me check..." said Amity, pulling out a scroll. She quickly scanned the Boiling Isles' scroll network for any more signs of trouble, but they'd cleaned up the town, at least for one day, and any little fires that popped up could be taken care of by the other coven members. "Looks like we're good to go."
Luz pulled one more card from her belt and threw it at the five trolls. It transformed into a small portal that engulfed them quickly, causing all of them to disappear. They'd reappear in the Boiling Isles' prison facility, where all of the criminals, miscreants, and would-be usurpers that the Sisters' Coven took care of ended up. The Sisters' Coven was named after the sisters Eda and Lilith, and was dedicated to, in their own words: "Protecting the Boiling Isles, and having fun while doing it!" Amity was the leader, and her wife Luz was the co-leader, though Luz tended to defer to Amity on most coven decisions.
It had been ten years since the day Luz had first ended up on the Boiling Isles, and in that decade since, so many things had happened. Life on the Boiling Isles had changed forever: Luz had had an indelible influence on the world and its people. Human "trash" had become valuable treasure, with some human inventions even becoming popular on the Boiling Isles itself. Though human tourism was strictly controlled (limited to people Luz and Gus trusted), small numbers of humans had visited the Boiling Isles, and some were even spending days at a time there.
Of course, Luz's life had changed as well. Her fateful meeting with Eda had introduced her to the Boiling Isles and its creatures, and her meeting with Amity had introduced her to the woman she would eventually marry. The two waited until they'd graduated college, but finally, in Luz's senior year, she'd proposed, and Amity had said yes. It was the first marriage between citizens of two different worlds, though the political and sociological implications of the relationship ensured that it probably wouldn't be the last, as people from the human world and the magical world began to venture back and forth with increasing frequency.
"You ready?" asked Luz. The two witches were now on the outskirts of town, and Luz was pointing her staff at a tree.
"I always am," replied Amity, who had now visited Luz's world hundreds of times before, so much that it was completely routine for her. "Hope traffic's not too bad today."
Luz cast the spell, and a portal appeared in the tree. The two walked through it, and emerged in the front yard of a suburban home, next to a driveway where a 2027 Porsche Taycan was parked. Amity pulled a key-fob from her cloak and started the car, and she and Luz climbed in.
"Think we should change out of these cloaks first?" asked Amity, lifting her cloak up to her nose and sniffing it.
"Nah, that fight was easy, we didn't even break a sweat!"
"I know, it's just embarrassing remembering that one time we visited your mom all covered in giant saltgrub guts," said Amity self-consciously, pulling the car out of the driveway and into the street. "Google, play Prog Rock Mix #2."
Luz knew that Amity was a quick learner, and quite possibly the smartest person she'd ever met, but she still couldn't help but marvel at how well her wife had adapted to Earth's technology in such a short time. Amity had taken to Earth and its culture as quickly as Luz had taken to the Boiling Isles, and though she still preferred the place of her birth, she felt almost at home on Earth as she did in the halls of Blight Manor, or in the small house in Bonesborough where she and Luz lived.
"Geez, Amity, I learned to drive five years before you did and you're a way better driver than me!" said Luz, giggling to herself as the opening notes of Yes' Roundabout began to play inside the car.
"Well, you'd be a lot better at driving if you'd keep your eyes on the road," replied Amity, scolding Luz as lovingly as she could. "You're driving a three thousand pound death machine, you can't get distracted by cute animals running in people's yards, or a billboard for the latest season of The Good Witch Azura...
"Yeah, but Azura and Hecate looked so cool..."
Amity sighed and smiled, remembering binge-watching the most recent season with Luz, snuggled up on the couch at Camilla's house with popcorn and candy and pointing out all the changes they made from the book, for better or for worse. Even though Luz had indeed grown more mature and focused in the last ten years, she was in a lot of ways still the same kindhearted, imaginative, easily distracted girl Amity had fallen in love with... and she wouldn't have it any other way.
"Oooh!" shouted Luz suddenly, as a quiet guitar part started to play in the song, followed by a loud stream of bass notes. "This is the meme song!"
"What...?"
"The meme song, the 'to be continued' meme!" Luz squealed excitedly.
"This song is a meme?" Amity replied quizzically, her eyebrow raised.
"Oh, I need to show you! It's kind of an old meme, but it's really funny!"
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n out
"This song has lyrics?" said Luz, raising an eyebrow of her own. Amity just giggled.
"Google, turn it up."
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving through the sound
And in and out the valley
"This song's old, isn't it?" asked Luz, though she wasn't exactly hating it.
"Almost sixty years old," Amity replied. "Actually, I love this kind of music, it reminds me of home. Epic lyrics about magic, flights of fantasy, clashes between good and evil... I think you humans must've visited the Boiling Isles when you came up with prog rock. I'm surprised you don't listen to this kind of music, Luz!"
"Well, I've heard stuff like it in video games, but I kinda thought old music was lame..."
"I'll share some of my favorites with you when we get back home," said Amity, smiling. "In the meantime, listen to more of this and see if you like it."
Luz was glad Amity had taken such a shine to the human world... the first time she visited, Luz was worried she wouldn't be able to get back, but after visiting for a week, the spell to bring her back home worked exactly as intended, and Amity was able to return... then a week later, she came back for another visit... and another, and another, and another, learning more about Luz's life and about the human world every time she came. The human world was as much of an adventure for Amity as the Boiling Isles had been for Luz, but eventually, it felt like home to her...
"Robbery in progress, Flores National Bank, two armed individuals, maybe hostages."
The police scanner tucked inside the car interrupted the sounds of Yes. It diverted the young women's attention, though Amity kept her eyes on the road as the car's GPS indicated that it was passing within a half mile of the bank.
"Do we have time?" asked Amity.
"We always have time to help people," replied Luz, patting the belt at her side. "In any world."
Amity nodded, and turned onto a nearby street. A few minutes later, the car pulled into the back of the bank's parking out. Outside, the police were waiting, but upon seeing the two cloaked witches emerge from the car, they looked at them in an almost deferential way. One of the officers, the leader of the squad engaging the bank robbers, walked over to Amity and Luz as they stepped out of the car.
"We've got a pretty good handle on this, but it is a touchy situation, so we could probably use the help. Two robbers, three hostages. The robbers have high powered rifles."
"We've dealt with that before, no worries," said Amity, turning to Luz. "You're good to go?"
Luz nodded, while the police officer radioed his superior.
"The witches are here... we're letting them handle this one. Yes, the Blight-Nocedas. We didn't ask them this time, they volunteered. Right. No one's getting hurt today."
The two stepped into the bank, confident but careful. Inside were two tellers and a customer, kneeling on the ground, next to two masked and heavily armed robbers. The robbers saw the witches and immediately trained their guns on the hostages.
"Stand down, freaks! We know who you are! Stand down or they're dead!"
"Calm down," said Amity, raising both hands. "We won't hurt you if you surrender."
"We won't hurt them if you surrender!" shouted one of the robbers, who had an eye on Luz. "We watch the news! We know about your cards! You make one move toward that belt and we'll shoot 'em!"
"Heeeey, let's all just relax, okay?" said Luz, smiling as she too put her hands up in the air.
"Heh, Luz says 'relax'," said the robber, raising his gun and pointing it at Luz. "I'm relaxed. I'm relaxed. I'm-"
He pulled the trigger, sending bullets flying directly at Luz's head. They slammed into an invisible barrier about six inches from her face, and disintegrated immediately. As the other robber moved to shoot the hostages, Luz threw one of her cards at him, causing a bunch of metal wires to wrap around his arms and legs, forcing him to drop the gun and fall to the ground. The other robber moved to shoot at Amity, but Amity pointed her staff at him, and he found himself encased in bandages from neck to toe, dropping him to the ground alongside his partner. The two robbers had been defeated quickly and cleanly, and Luz and Amity walked over to check on the hostages, making sure they weren't wounded (and ready to heal them if they had been).
"Thank you, thank you!" shouted the grateful bank teller. "We thought we were goners, how did you know to show up?"
"We try our best," said Luz with a smile. "Is everyone okay?"
The hostages were shaken but fine, and were escorted out of the bank by Luz and Amity, while the cops moved in to arrest the restrained robbers. The squad leader stayed outside to thank the two, congratulating them on a job well done.
"It's crazy how you two can resolve situations like this without anyone ever getting hurt," said the officer. "I gotta be honest, if I had powers like yours, I'd be tempted to use them to win the lottery or something... though I guess from the looks of your car, maybe you did?"
"Amity's family is rich," giggled Luz, prompting a glare from her wife.
"Luz!" scolded Amity. "What have I told you about bragging about my money to strangers?"
"Hey, as far as I'm concerned, I don't care how ya got that thing. I still remember what you guys did in Los Angeles, that was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen. I was skeptical about two people using magic powers like they were some kinda superheroes or something, but an 8.2 earthquake hits Los Angeles and not a single person got killed or badly hurt? Seein' you two hold up all those buildings and save all those people?"
"Well, we did have help from Eda and Lilith and Willow and-" Luz began before being cut off.
"I don't care if you had help from Mickey Mouse, that was amazing. And then you two go around saving more people? Asking nothing in return, putting yourselves in danger? You two are heroes, don't ever forget it. Thanks again for your help today."
Luz and Amity checked on the hostages one last time, then returned to their car. As they did, the officers' words reminded them of that day three years ago... humans knew about witches and magic before then, as Eda and Amity had both visited Earth multiple times before, but it was on that day, August 23, 2027, that the human world learned about the Boiling Isles and witches and magic... and how it had the potential to save everyone. A terrible earthquake had struck, the biggest in California in more than two hundred years... it had been good fortune that Eda and Lilith had both been visiting the human world to celebrate Luz and Amity's engagement. At the moment the quake struck, the two cast a powerful time freezing spell, and held it as long as they could, long enough for Luz and Amity to go to the Boiling Isles and get the entire Sisters' Coven positioned around the city. In the seconds after the quake, as buildings collapsed and fires raged, something incredible happened... every single person in mortal danger had been pulled out of the fire, rescued from the collapsed buildings and crashed cars... and in the aftermath of the horrible disaster, a miracle: no deaths, no serious injuries... and a world that now knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that magic was real.
Of course, none of that would've been possible had Luz and Amity not found the magic in the human world to begin with... that story, which began with Amity's first visit to the human world, and stretched out across nearly two years, up to Luz's first day in college, was perhaps the couple's greatest adventure, and a story they would surely tell their children someday... but they didn't want to spend too long reminiscing today. After all, Luz's mom was still waiting for them.
"Hopefully no more interruptions," said Amity as she started the car.
"Aww, you know you love saving people, don't act like you don't."
"Of course I love saving people... I've wanted to be a hero ever since I first read The Good Witch Azura... I just never imagined I could be one until I met you."
Amity leaned over and kissed Luz on the lips, grateful to her wife for the gift she'd been given. Luz returned the kiss, caressing Amity's cheek with her hand.
"You've always been a hero, Amity," said Luz. "You've been my hero ever since I saw you reading to those kids."
"You still remember that?"
"How could I forget? It was our very first adventure."
Amity sighed, almost shedding a tear that Luz still remembered that day. She'd certainly never forgotten it, or the promise she made to be a friendlier witch. She knew she'd fulfilled that promise and then some... but she still hoped she was making Luz proud, each and every day they were together.
"I love you, Luz."
"I love you too, Amity..."
The car pulled out of the bank's parking lot, and drove the short distance to the hospital where Luz's mother worked as a nurse. Luz and Amity climbed out and made their way into the lobby, where a large crowd was watching a news report about the foiling of the bank robbery.
"It's still breaking news when we save people?" asked Amity, her hand on her hip.
"Of course it is!" said Luz, proudly watching the screen.
"Yeah, but what is it, like the 117th time now?"
"135th!"
"Luz!" called Camilia's familiar voice from across the lobby. Nearly everyone turned to the back of the lobby, and Luz and Amity found themselves mobbed by admirers. "Out of my way, it's my daughter... move, move!"
Somehow, Luz's mother fought her way through the crowd and ran up to her, wrapping her daughter up in a tight hug. Amity smiled warmly at the emotional display, signing a couple of autographs for children before addressing her mother-in-law.
"Good afternoon, mom," greeted Amity politely. "We ran into a bit of trouble on the way here."
"Luz, did you drag Amity into another adventure? I hope you didn't get her hurt!"
"Aw, c'mon mom, she's the one who protected me!"
"That's what I'm worried about!"
"I'm fine, we're fine, we're always fine," said Amity, reassuring Luz's mother that she was still taking good care of Luz. "How have you been?"
"Oh, it's not been too bad here," said Camilia.
"Is there anyone who needs healing in the trauma ward?" asked Amity.
"Not today, not today... and be careful saying that, you know people started taking really stupid risks after learning there were witches going around saving people."
Luz and Amity knew that well, and it's why there were still doctors and nurses and hospitals in the human world at all. Witches might be able to protect everyone during one natural disaster, but there weren't a lot of witches, and they couldn't be everywhere. Plus, they all still lived in the Boiling Isles, and couldn't be reasonably expected to move to the human world just to help people there. Luz and Amity tried healing who they could, and had saved a lot of lives, but they couldn't cure cancer, or brain damage, or even most spinal injuries, and they didn't have enough time or magical energy to help every injured person in the world. After the "miracle of Los Angeles", there had been a surge in accidents and illnesses, as many humans became reckless, thinking witches and magic would save them. Fortunately, most people had gotten over those initial impulses, and humanity had pretty much accepted that there were only two witches who frequented the human world and they couldn't go around helping people all the time. Maybe someday magic could fix all of humanity's problems, but that day was still a very long way away.
"Humans gonna human, I guess," said Luz, rolling her eyes. "But still, we'll help whoever we can."
"I know you will, my darling little angel," said Camilia, kissing her daughter on the cheek.
"Mom, I'm 24 now, not so little anymore..."
"You'll always be my little angel," said Camilia, who then gave Amity a tight hug. "And you're my angel's guardian angel."
Amity blushed, having grown quite attached to Camilia after first meeting her. Though their initial meeting had been quite a shocking one, with the nurse literally fainting after Amity demonstrated magic to her, she'd eventually come to accept that yes, everything Luz told her about the Boiling Isles was real, and yes, Amity was really a witch. Luz then told her mother that she was bisexual and that she was in love with Amity, and she'd been extremely accepting of it, far more accepting than Luz had expected. Amity and Camilia actually had a lot in common: they were both hard working, practical, honest, and quite headstrong, and once Camilia had gotten over the initial shock of Amity being a witch, she decided that Amity was exactly the kind of girl she wanted her daughter to be dating. Amity promised to make Luz study and to keep her focused, and that was all the convincing Camilia needed.
"I'm sure there'll be more adventures for us, but today, Luz just wanted to spend time with you."
"I've always got time for Luz... I'll go clock out for lunch and then we'll find a nice restaurant. I'll pick up the check!"
"Absolutely not-" Amity began, before Camilia glared at her. "Okay, you'll pick up the check!"
"Your money's no good here," giggled Luz.
"It should be, it's hard enough finding a place in the Boiling Isles that takes shells for gold, then I have to sell the gold here on Earth... do you know how much running around I had to do to be able to afford our car?"
"Coulda got a Camry..." said Luz, prompting Amity to sigh.
The three had a nice lunch together, talking about Luz and Amity's recent adventures in the Boiling Isles, and catching up on everything that had been happening with Luz's family on Earth. Luz planned to visit her friends in a couple days, but today's trip was just a short one, and after returning with Camilia to the hospital, the couple decided that it was time to make their way back to their home in the other world.
"We'll visit again next week, mom," said Luz, hugging her mother tightly. "You know how to get a hold of us if you need us sooner!"
"Still can't believe your phone gets reception there," said Camilia.
"Even better reception now that the first cell towers are going up!" Luz replied. "We're finally converting the old prison spire into one!"
"I'll have to visit again to see it," said Camilia with a smile. She gave Luz one last kiss on the cheek and gave Amity one last hug, before the two left the hospital and drove back to the forest to make their way home. You've changed that world so much, Luz... you've made your fantasy into reality. I'm sorry I didn't support you before, but you know you have my support now... and I always loved you and always will.
The Porsche pulled up into the driveway of Camilla's house, and Luz and Amity stepped out and made their way to the tree. A portal later, and they were back on the Boiling Isles... with a full day of adventures still ahead of them.
"That was really fun," said Luz, smiling as she and Amity got out of the car. "Seeing mom, saving those people, kicking bad guy butt... and it's barely even noon!"
"Every day's an adventure with you, Luz," replied Amity. "So, what's next?"
"Wanna go check on Gus and see how his Human Relations class is going? I heard he's gonna oversee the conversion of the prison spire into that cell phone tower."
"They'll love seeing you again," said Amity. "I think I'll pop in on Willow's class, let her try out some plant magic on me."
"Be careful, remember last time? The dizzy daisies?"
"That was not the dizzy daisies, I had too much wine."
"Only Amity would rather say she got drunk than admit she got zonked out by somebody's spell!" snickered Luz, playfully nudging her wife.
"I did not get zonked out, the warding spell worked perfectly!"
"Or, you know, you could just say you let Willow's spell get through."
"I did! I did! That's exactly what happened, I let my guard down on purpose!"
Luz teased Amity the entire walk to Hexside... something she enjoyed doing even when the two were students there, and something neither of them ever imagined they'd get tired of.
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"No, no, Eda, you install the app by going to the store and clicking on it, you don't install the app by threatening to turn the phone into a lobster!"
"Go to the store? So the problem is I'm at my house?"
"The store on the phone, Eda!"
"Luz, she's had that phone of hers for five years, if she doesn't understand it now, she never will," said Amity.
It was late that night, and Luz and Amity were now in bed together, Luz dressed in a tanktop and pajama pants with kittens on them, and Amity dressed in a pink nightgown. Luz was talking to Eda on her cell phone, while Amity was checking her scrolls for Penstagram updates and news stories.
"Hey, I know how to talk on this stupid thing at least!" shouted Eda on the other end of the phone.
"You only just now learned to do that," said Amity, leaning over Luz's shoulder so that she could talk to Eda.
"Oh, you're as bad as Lilith!"
"Hehe, I don't think Lilith knows how to use a phone at all," giggled Luz, prompting Amity to put a hand over her mouth, which didn't stop Luz from laughing.
"Well could you teach her?" asked Eda. "I want to send her some of these prank apps Luz taught me about, like the one that makes fart noises at random intervals, or the one that signs her up for junk mail and the Stinky Cheese of the Month Club."
Luz continued to laugh, despite Amity's hand still covering up her lips, and Amity sighed and lowered it, scolding Luz at the same time.
"Phone pranks? Really?"
"Hey, the fart app was Edric's idea," said Luz, still snickering slightly.
"At least Em doesn't do that kinda stuff anymore," Amity replied, rolling her eyes.
"Aw, don't act like you don't love my pranks," said Luz. "I make you laugh... I love making you laugh."
Amity blushed fiercely, and Luz turned around and began tickling her tummy. As Amity's laughter echoed through the room, Eda's groans could be heard on the other end.
"Should I hang up? Are you two finally getting ready to make me a grandma?"
"EDA!" Luz and Amity both shouted, prompting a loud cackle from the other end of the phone.
"Hey, you know if you need help with that, I've got a spell..."
"I'm hanging up now," said Luz, now blushing as brightly as Amity was. "...love you Eda."
"Love you too, Luz," said Eda warmly. "See you at the Owl House first thing tomorrow, I've got a tip on a dangerous quest that I'm sure'll keep you busy most of the day. ...and also breakfast."
Luz set down her phone, and Amity put away her scrolls, and the two held each other close, enjoying each other's company after a typical day of adventuring across two worlds.
"Today was fun," said Luz, nuzzling Amity's forehead with her own.
"It always is," Amity replied, smiling and smooching her wife on the lips. "We're still a couple years away from being ready for a kid, right?"
"A couple years, huh? I figured at least four... can't be too soon or they'll end up being more mature than me, especially if they take after you!"
Amity laughed and nuzzled Luz again. She was ready to wait for kids as long as Luz wanted to... she didn't even need to have kids at all. There were already so many kids who looked up to both of them, and though she had room in her heart for so many people, right now, all she really wanted to do was love Luz as much as she possibly could... as much as Luz loved her.
"Goodnight, Luz... I'm sure I'll see you in my dreams."
"Are you so sure this isn't a dream? After all, it's absolutely perfect... what if I wake up and you're not here?"
"Then I'll find you," said Amity, kissing Luz softly on the lips once more. "I promise."
"I love you, Amity."
"I love you, Luz."
The two pulled up the covers, snuggling together and enjoying the warmth of each other's company. It had been a fun day, and they were tired, and ready to sleep. In a world of adventure, danger, and peril, in a world where their heroic deeds were already becoming legend, they felt completely safe in each other's arms, and always would. They'd been through so much, and had so much time left to go. The past had been an adventure, and the future was as bright as it had ever been.
Two witches from two different worlds, sharing one heart.
Light and blight, Luz and Amity.
Together forever.
And ever and beyond.