Boscha sat at the stand, looking at her third eye as it moved around rapidly.
"Can you not do that with my body!?" Luz, or rather Boscha in Luz's body, said.
"You can move your third eye independently of the other two!?" Luz asked, "How did I never know this!?"
Boscha growled.
"Oh, a body swap spell won't be a big deal. Oh no, seems like something went wrong and I can't swap you back without a special potion." Boscha said, mocking Eda's voice, "I AM LIGHTING THAT BITCH ON FIRE WHEN SHE GETS BACK!"
"Hey, if I'm you and you're me, maybe the ball spell will cheer you up." Luz teased.
Boscha had no response except to cry out in rage and flip the stand table. At least the former, since the latter was proving to be difficult. She tried for a solid minute to flip that damn table, but to no avail.
"No! Your weak nerd arms!" She whined to her sister.
Luz smirked and grabbed the stand with one hand and lifted it up.
"Guess I'm the strong one now!" Luz said, flexing her other arm.
Boscha sent a kick at her body's right ankle, making Luz drop the stand and hold that leg.
"OW!"
"Yeah, remember when I twisted my ankle while playing basketball a couple years ago?" Boscha asked, "Turns out that became something of a weak point for me."
"That's cheating... but you also told me of your weakness, I can exploit that." Luz said.
"I've literally seen you struggle to get a paper bag off your head, you ain't exploiting shit." Boscha said, pulling out Luz's phone and using her thumb to unlock it, "When's mami getting here?"
"She said any minute." Luz said, not paying attention.
"Hopefully soon." Boscha said, before noticing something on Luz's phone, "WHY IS MY CONTACT NAME THREE EYES!?"
Luz gave a nervous chuckle, which became relief as the portal opened.
"Perfect timing." Luz said.
Camila walked through with a bag. She saw her daughters and smiled.
"Hola, chi... what happened?" Camila asked.
"W-w-what do you mean?" Luz asked.
"Luz... Boscha does not have brown eyes." Camila said, "I'm a parent, I notice this stuff."
Camila then looked at her other daughter in her two blue eyes. "And I'm guessing that's you in there, Boschita?"
"They took my arms, ma!" Boscha flexed her new human arms which maintained their near-cartoonishly cylindrical shape.
Camila nodded, almost numb to her daughters' magical hijinks at this point. "Okay, did you two antagonize Eda somehow, or did she just do this for fun?"
"We... might've been arguing." Luz said, rubbing the back of her head, "And... this might've been her way of ending it."
As she struggled to process the situation, Camila pulled up a chair and settled in for what was sure to be a long story. "Okay, mijas, why don't you start at the beginning?"
"Okay..." Luz cleared her throat in preparation. "It was a surprisingly balmy day in the hamlet of Bonesborough. The heroic Luz Noceda sinuously strolled through the street followed by her plucky sidekick..."
A frustrated groan escaped Boscha's throat.
TWO HOURS AGO:
A frustrated groan escaped Boscha's throat.
"Can I get some goddamn help here?" She called out as she struggled to balance the heavier of Eda's wares in her arms.
Luz playfully grinned at her. "Hey, I've got my hands full here trying to adjust this sign."
"Yeah, c'mon, Triclops!" Eda emerged from the tent of her stand. "Table's ready, so get those human treasures set up, already."
"Sure, make the freakishly strong witch do the heavy lifting." Boscha muttered to herself.
"You knocked over a fully grown tree by leaning on it, you can handle this." Eda said.
"I would honestly love to be strong like that." Luz said, "It would be very useful."
"Useful? Luz, if I jump, I cause an earthquake." Boscha said, "I'm a basketball player, jumping is pretty damn important."
Her eyes narrowed, Luz marched up to her sister. "Well, maybe if you weren't so hot-tempered, you could learn how to control that strength."
"Excuse you?!" Boscha started to exhibit said temper. "You think you can handle having to go about every day treating everything like it's made of cardboard? Or constantly concentrating on keeping your powers in check because otherwise, you feel like a loaded gun with the safety off?"
"Maybe you just need to learn how to control them, they won't be that bad if you actually learned how they work." Luz said.
Boscha started growling and her skin start smoking. Eda put a stick with a marshmallow over her.
"Yeah, keep talking kid, this girl is a walking oven!" Eda said.
"And that's emblematic of what I've been saying." Luz's attitude did not falter. "I, on the other hand, am a paragon of self-control." To illustrate her point, she activated a light glyph to construct an incandescent miniature statuette of a familiar-looking, green-haired witch.
The display simply made Boscha roll her eyes. "The Minty addict is gonna lecture me on self-control?"
"Said the Skaraholic."
That retort from Luz infuriated her sister to the point that she practically ignited, burning Eda's marshmallow to ash.
"Aw." Eda said, upset by that "Okay, you two clearly have some issues."
Eda tossed her stick to the side.
"We're sisters, of course we have issues." Boscha said.
"Tch! Like I need you to tell me." Eda used her magic to levitate her heavier merchandise out of Boscha's hands and to her stand. "The shit Lily and I got into..."
The three-eyed witch's ire flared on. "And you couldn't have done that in the first place because...?"
"It's called "earning your keep," kid."
"I am SO sick of being treated like some beast of burden while Luz gets the kid gloves."
"Hey, I'm not exactly crazy about being coddled, y'know" Luz groused.
A wicked grin spread across Eda's face. "Sounds like you'd like to walk a mile in each other's shoes."
"Can't do that, Boscha has fat feet." Luz said.
Boscha slowly turned to Luz with a glare. Luz wasn't sure if she was about to catch fire or not, but Boscha looked like she was still trying to see if she could. Behind Boscha, Eda was making a spell circle.
'Probably going to hit Boscha with that ball spell to try and stop her from setting the entire stand on fire.' Luz thought.
... Oh how wrong she was.
"Body Swap!" Eda yelled as the spell hit the siblings.
The ensuing cloud of smoke from the spell enveloped the entire stand. As it cleared, Luz tried to get her bearings, but something felt... off.
"Uhhh, Eda... Boscha... my head feels funny. Why does everything look like it's filmed in 3D?"
As Luz stumbled around, Boscha seemed to be having problems of her own. "What's going on? I can't see out of my upper eye! I'm third-eye blind! ARGH! Fuck my semi-charmed kind of life!"
Just then, Boscha heard a noise, causing her to turn around and see...Boscha?!
"DOPPELGANGER!" She yelled at her double. "Goddamn Adegast came back somehow. I'll show him!" She charged at the supposed copy.
"Uuuugh... Boscha, that you? Everythin's spinnin'!" Luz spun around, her slack arms flailing with her movements and colliding with... Luz?!
Boscha felt the blow of a powerful backhand and crashed to the ground. As she massaged her aching head, she noticed that her hand was looking more tan than usual.
"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO!?" Boscha yelled, standing up, "WHY DO MY ARMS FEEL LIKE THEY CAN BE BROKEN BY A LIGHT BREEZE!?"
Eda smirked.
"I'm giving you two a fresh perspective." Eda said, "You sounded like you needed it."
"Aaaaaahhhh, seriously, guys, my brain's overloading." Luz was apparently struggling with having three eyes all of a sudden. "Boschaaaaa, help meeee..."
Boscha needed to think of something. Fortunately, having concealed her upper eye in public for most of her life, she didn't need to adjust to suddenly being a biclops. She sprang to her feet -while being amazed at how light she felt- and fished a light glyph out of her (or rather Luz's) pocket. She created a simple ball of light and held it on front of her face (The one Luz was using at the moment.)
"Okay, Luz, look at the light." Boscha held the light sphere in between all three of Luz's eyes to help her focus. "Just relax your brow and look at nothing but the light, okay?"
Luz looked at the light, unsure of how burning her retina would help. Boscha began to wave the light back and forth, causing all three of Luz's loaner eyes to subconsciously follow it. She eventually managed to sync those eyes and learned to focus.
"Thanks, Luz." Luz exclaimed. "I was starting to get nauseous for a- WWWWHHAAAAAA?!"
"Thank Eda." Boscha muttered. "Looks like she didn't yell "body swap" just for the hell of it."
"... Why do I feel so hot?" Luz asked.
"Oh, well, I try to look good." Boscha said, "...I also have a body temperature of 173 degrees Fahrenheit."
"Really?!"
"Well, approximately."
Two pale hands took the sisters by the shoulder. "Well, looks like you two are adjusting well." Eda cackled.
Boscha, however, had more than enough of being trapped in her sister's body. "Change. Us. BACK!"
She stared down the Owl Lady with her trademark scowl, only with Luz's face, it wasn't quite the same. Eda made an honest effort not to laugh, but the scrunched expression on Boscha's borrowed face cracked her up too much. After her laughing fit -and taking a picture with her scroll- Eda calmed down. "Sorry, kid, but with other kid's face, you just look so damn cute."
Said "other kid" started to worry. "Hey, Eda, this isn't... permanent or anything, is it?"
"Oh, a body swap spell won't be a big deal. It can actually be kinda fun." Boscha's growling seemed to contradict Eda's statement. "Okay, I guess the fun's over, then. Just hold still."
With the wave of her staff, Eda created a spell circle to undo her handiwork. Only this time, the circle did nothing. "Oh no..."
"What do you mean "oh, no?!"" Boscha fumed.
"Well, seems like something went wrong and I can't swap you back without a special potion."
"WHAT?!" Luz was also freaking out as she emitted flames from her mouth.
"Don't worry, the potion I'm getting is a conduit for weaker spells. It should do the trick." Owlbert's wings unfurled as Eda bestrode her staff. "I just need to go back to the Owl House and get it. So, mind the store for me and don't damage the merch, or I'll forever leave you stranded in your respective hells. Byyyyyeeeeee!"
The Nocedas watched as Eda took to the sky, both thinking the same thing.
"She definitely made up that bit with the potion." Luz sighed.
"Esa perra mentirosa." Boscha seethed.
Luz took out her (rather, Boscha's) phone. "I'll call mom, see if she can help. Good thing Eda left the portal here."
"And that's how we got here." Luz said.
Camila looked... well... they weren't entirely sure what expression she was making, but it sure wasn't happy.
"... Uh... mom?" Boscha asked.
"Yes, Boscha?" Camila asked, as the sisters were certain they just heard lightning behind Camila, "Did you need something?"
Luz and Boscha backed up.
"... Nope." They said.
Being trapped in a stronger body didn't stop Luz from using her sister as a human shield. Eventually, she gathered the courage to talk to her mother. "Uhhhh... ¿Estás bien, mamá?"
"I'm fine." Camila's voice, like her eyes, was void of any emotion. "I'm just going to sit here and wait for Eda to come back, have a frank discussion with her about child safety, and, if there's anything left of her after that, I'll have her undo this spell."
"Great..." Boscha said, grabbing Luz's wrist, "We're... going to head back to the owl house."
She tried to drag Luz with her, but the fact that they had switched bodies seemed to have escaped her notice, as she couldn't move her at all. "Luz! Work with me here, wouldja?"
"But Eda said to wait here." Luz fretted.
"Eda says lotsa sh- stuff." Her mom's presence kept Boscha's manners in check. "Mom can keep an eye on things here! Besides, you really wanna be here when Eda gets back?"
Luz said nothing. She simply bolted in a random direction, dragging her now-little sister away with her. Boscha had two options, she either lets Luz drag her around the Isles and risk slamming her head on the ground or let go of Luz and hurt herself from Luz the girl that can run as fast as a race car
'Is that because of my body or was dad the Flash and passed down the speed force?' Boscha thought.
Boscha then remembered the third option and threw a punch at her right ankle... that made Luz stop, as she had dropped to the ground and held her ankle. Regrettably, the sudden stop in Luz's momentum caused her to inadvertently hurl her sister down the street, crashing into someone else's stand.
Luz was still nursing her sore ankle when she realized what happened. "Ugh, dang it, Boscha, you're gonna get myself killed at this rate."
"Hey, Boscha!" Luz heard another voice from behind her. "You okay?"
"I think she'll be all right. My body's tougher tha-" It took her a few seconds to remember that she was the one being addressed. "I mean, I'm okay."
She turned around to greet this person.
"I dunno, you sound kind of concussed." Skara replied.
'Oh crap.' Luz thought, 'This is going to be awkward. Well, no one knows Boscha better than me.'
"I'm fine, I've taken worse hits while playing basketball in the human realm." Luz said, surprisingly mimicking Boscha's voice perfectly.
"Well, as long as you're okay." Skara helped Luz to her feet.
"Thanks." Luz dusted herself off. "Now I gotta find where I accidentally threw Boscha...er, I mean me...no, I mean "Luz.""
"You sure you're not concussed?" Skara checked Luz's forehead. "We should get you to a healer."
"No, really, I'm fine. Probably just the amnesia-"
"No you don't! I just got you back, and I'm not taking any chances this time!" Skara took a blushing Luz by the hand and took her in the presumptive direction of the healers.
Meanwhile, Boscha had come to in the ruins of the stand just in time to see her sister and her friend take off.
"Was that Skara... taking off with LUZ?!" Without her body, her rage didn't have that special fire to it that it used to. "This is terrific. I know this is a stupid thing to say, but what else can go wrong?!"
"Luz?"
And like clockwork, Amity of all people showed up. 'I brought this on myself.' Boscha confessed internally.
"Hey, Blight." Boscha said, "Not even going to attempt to lie through this, I'm actually Boscha."
"WHA-?" Amity reeled in shock. "Luz, that's not funny. You could get in serious trouble fo-"
"I'm not joking, Minty, I'm really Boscha. Eda pulled some dumb body swap spell on us ammMMMMMFFFKRR!"
Amity quickly put her hand on Boscha's mouth and whispered to her. "Shhhh! Okay, let's say you're really Boscha. You do NOT want to be shouting that in the middle of town. Body swapping is a capital offense. If you and Luz were caught swapped, you'd both be rotting away in the Conformatorium."
"Mmmmfff?!" Boscha took the hand down to speak. "What kinda bullshit is that? What harm can this kind of spell do?"
"Well, for starters, it's literal identity theft. If you commit crimes in Luz's body, Luz would still take the punishment when you've swapped back. It's a spell that's been overexploited and demand for its criminalization was unanimous across the Isles."
"Oh... that kinda harm."
Amity took Boscha by the hand. "We need to find Luz and Eda and get this spell fixed. I don't want any harm to come to Luz because of it."
"And me...?" Boscha protested.
"I'm sure you don't want Luz harmed either."
'Where the heck is Skara taking me?' Luz thought, as Skara pulled her along.
Just then, Boscha's phone pinged, prompting Luz to answer it. As she stood still to check the phone, Skara kept trying to drag her, carving a groove into the ground. "Boscha what the heck?!"
"Sorry, I gotta take this." Luz checked her contacts.
LI'L SHIT: don't tell anyone about body swap or we die
OVERLORD SHIVA: Hey, how could you give me crap about contact names?
LI'L SHIT: FOCUS u li'l shit
OVERLORD SHIVA: Ok, sheesh.
LI'L SHIT: Turns out what eda did 2 us was ilegal
OVERLORD SHIVA: Stop the presses, lol.
LI'L SHIT: SRSLY thisis death penalty if we caught
OVERLORD SHIVA:
LI'L SHIT: no kidding lets get 2 mom
"Oh, uh... my mom is here so, I have to go." Luz said, still mimicking Boscha's voices.
"Oh... I could go with you if you want, I like your mom, she's pretty nice." Skara said, remembering how cool Camila was during the conjuring.
"I mean... you can if you want, I guess."
'I'm so lucky Boscha is always flustered when Skara is around, otherwise she would see right through this.' Luz thought.
'What would she do if she knew the truth, though? She wouldn't turn me in, would she? No... no that's crazy, but if she likes Boscha a lot and gets mad at me for using her body, would she kill me dead? Jeez, what else could-?'
Just then, a burly demon with pale blue skin, sharp, jagged teeth and a sizeable underbite stomped in front of the two. "Okay, which one of you witches destroyed my stand?!"
"I didn't even get to finish asking." Luz said to herself before addressing the irate demonic shopkeeper. "Please, kind sir, is there some way we can compensate for your lo-?"
"DISTRACTION SPELL!"
Skara immediately kicked the demon in the shin, causing him to sharply inhale and heave in pain repeatedly.
"RUN!" Skara took Luz by the hand again and took off.
"Why does everyday result in something like this?" Luz asked.
"Bad luck?" Skara suggested, "We should get to the Owl Lady's stand, she might be able to help!"
"She's the whole reason we're in this mess in the first place." Luz let slip.
Skara was quick to notice. "What are you talking about?"
"Uuuuhhhh... Whuzzat? Sorry... feeling... short of... breath." Despite having said that, Luz was feeling incredibly vigorous. Almost like she could fly. Is this how Boscha felt every day, as well as the sensation of boiling blood?
"But... yeah... let's get back to Eda's stand!" Luz said.
A sudden and troublesome thought had occurred to Skara, causing her to stop and Luz to follow suit. "Maybe you should've been leading, because I just realized I have no idea where Eda's stand is."
That was not what Luz needed to hear, because an equally troublesome thought had occurred to her. "Oh... oh no... I just realized I'm not all that familiar with Bonesborough. I'm... kinda lost."
It didn't take long for a sense of guilt to strike Skara when she remembered who she was talking to - or thought she was talking to. "Shit! I forgot you haven't really been here that long. How could I be so dense?!"
Luz was dumbfounded by how upset Skara suddenly became. "Uuuhhh... hey, Skar-Skar, is everything okay?"
"What?" Clearly, the bard-track student never went by such a name. "Oh, yeah, sorry. I didn't mean to act up like that. I guess I was so worried you might get... well, lost again, that I kind of panicked back there." She began to fidget nervously, unsure how to approach her long-lost friend.
This was definitely a Boscha issue. Luz knew that, and yet, Skara was looking at her with anxiety. There was no way that she'd let her sister become an insensitive jerk by proxy. "Hey, did you... did you wanna talk about it?"
"I... I don't know." Skara said, "It's stupid."
"I don't think it is, because clearly something is the matter." Luz said, "And clearly it involves Bo... me."
Skara looked away.
"When you disappeared, it was the worst day of my life." Skara said, "I lost my best friend, I was just a kid and just learned about loss from it... I'm still afraid when I sleep at night that I'll wake up and this is just a dream, and that you'll disappear again. I know it's silly, it's j-OOWWW!"
Skara massaged her arm where Luz had pinched it.
"Well, there you go!" The human in disguise assured. "Now you know it's not a dream."
Were it not from the wincing from the pain in her arm, Skara would be laughing along with her. "You certainly play as rough as I remember."
"Oh, yeah!" Luz nervously laughed. "My... sister and I would roughhouse a whole bunch growing up. One time when we were having a pillow fight, she stuffed her Butterhead Baby doll into her pillowcase. Might as well have been a brick. Mom was so mad at her, she was all "Boscha Valentina Noceda, what were you thinking doing that to-" eep! "Uhhh... what were you thinking of having for dinner tonight?" Is what she asked me. Boscha."
"I hope your mom's as good a healer as what we have in Bonesborough." Skara worried. "your brain sounds incredibly scrambled."
"She is, don't worry. I have no plans of disappearing again." Luz's smile put Skara at ease as she smiled back with a slight blush. It was a tender moment that progressed the relationship between Boscha and Skara. The only problem was that Boscha wasn't a part of it. Luz felt guilty having to put up this act, but she couldn't risk making her sister look like a jerk by proxy. And besides, Boscha would have told Skara the same thing, albeit with more profanity peppered in.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck... slow down wouldja Minty?" Boscha, meanwhile, was having little luck keeping up with Amity as she was still adjusting to Luz's weak nerd legs. "I feel like I'm running against the damn wind, here."
"It's good for you." Amity said, "And stop calling me minty!"
"... No." Boscha said.
"And I'm not the one that needs fitness advice. It's not my fault my sister has the muscularity of a hummingbird." Boscha had been saving that line for a few weeks, but her self-satisfaction at finally finding an occasion to use it was short-lived, having slammed into a now-stationary Amity.
Amity had hardly budged, save pivoting angrily towards Boscha. "Why do you keep denigrating your sister like that? What did she ever do to you to deserve to be treated like that?"
"What? We always treat each other like that. It's a sister thing."
"Sounds like something Edric and Emira would say."
"I mean, we don't take it that far! And I certainly never let the shitstains from our school mess with her."
Hoping she didn't mean "shitstain" in a literal sense, Amity quietly assumed Boscha was being colloquial. Still... "Wait... Luz gets picked on by other humans?"
"Yeah, and unlike you and Willow, their bullying is authentic and with slightly better acting."
"No one deserves to be treated that way." The green-haired witch muttered to herself, thinking of her conversation with Luz that day at the Covention Centre.
"Yeah, I'm aware." Boscha said, "I've been suspended at least a dozen times for fighting them. I may be a bit rude, but I do love my sister and will do anything to protect her."
Amity crossed her arms.
'... Why can't Emira and Edric do something like that?'
"I get that you and your siblings have issues... but Luz and I are more than siblings, we're best friends, and friends do anything for each others... even if it hurts."
Thoughts of Willow instantly flooded Amity's mind, which caused her to wonder if they were sisters of a sort. "Yeah... I think you've got a point."
"Damn right I do!" Boscha strode up to her with confidence in spite of how tired and sore she felt at the moment. "But don't take it too hard. Luz and I finding each other was a freaking miracle. We crossed fucking DIMENSIONS and became sisters. It was a one-in-a-craptillion experience for us."
"For me, too." Amity again softly spoke to herself with a smile. A thought had occurred to her immediately afterwards. "Wait, how exactly did you cross realms?"
"Huh?"
"You and Luz talk about coming from a Human Realm, this... Connect-a-cut. How did you even get there a decade ago?"
"That I'm not fully aware of." Boscha said, "I got amnesia, based on what I was told, I had this massive wound on my head, so it's likely that when I got there and got stuck in that snare trap, I hit my head and lost my memory. When I get back in my body I can show you the scar the snare left."
"That sounds awful." Amity started to feel bad about being harsh with her before.
Boscha nodded. "It was. But, I got an awesome family out of it, so, silver linings and shit. Why'd you ask about me being lost in the Human Realm?"
"I... talked to Skara recently."
"Wait, really?!" Equal parts shock, anxiety and infatuation overcame Boscha. "Did she say anything about me?"
Amity definitely noticed that reaction. "She did, yeah. She mentioned you two were friends before you got lost. I think we all hung out a couple times back then."
"Whoa, what?!"
"Yeah, Mom kinda pushed me to make friends with the kids of her business partners, which included Skara and you. Your and Skara's families drifted apart seven or eight years ago, but I think if we looked, we could find your pa-"
"AMITY!"
That sudden voice caused the hair on the back of Amity's neck to bristle. Boscha wasn't too thrilled to hear it, either.
"I've been wanting to talk to you since that witch's duel, but you've been dodging me ever since." The owner of that voice approached the two. Amity's expression soured at the approach of the tall, pale, raven-haired witch trying to get her attention. Well, she had it now, and all the vitriol that came with it.
"Lilith..."
Boscha started bobbing her head, like she was moving to a beat, and kicked her foot against the ground.
'This is going to be awkward.' She thought.
"Amity, I-"
"I don't want to hear it!" Amity snapped, still very angry, "You made me cheat! Do you have any idea what happened when I got home?! Do you have any idea how angry my mother was!?"
"Amity, I-"
"LEAVE ME ALONE! I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU ANYMORE!"
"AND I WANT TO APOLOGIZE!"
Boscha and Amity were stunned. Neither of them had known Lilith to show any humility, let alone grovel before anybody, but there she was, bowing her head and pleading. The secondhand embarrassment was palpable.
"You're absolutely right!" Lilith continued. "I abused your trust and jeopardized your future. I let Edalyn get in my head and cloud my judgement and you were a casualty of my poor decisions. I only hope you can forgive me."
Her prostrations were interrupted by muffled snickering. Peeking behind Amity, Lilith could see the witch in Luz's clothing holding some unusual rectangle as if it were a scroll or something.
"What exactly are you doing?" Lilith asked.
"Immortalizing your shame." Boscha was straight-faced despite her amusement. "Now, you mentioned something about ruining Minty's life?"
'Minty?' Confusing, but Lilith pressed on. "Amity, if you'll let me, we can resume our training, I can smooth things over with your parents and even secure a real audition for the Emperor's Coven."
Still being defensive, Amity resisted the urge to take the offer. "No... I'm not sure I can trust you again."
"Then what can I do to regain your trust?"
"I don't know."
"Please, Amity, don't throw away everything we've worked for!"
"Take the hint, Wednesday, she doesn't wanna talk to you!" Boscha interrupted.
Hearing that nickname sparked Lilith's curiosity. She looked the human in the eyes. She forgot her original eye color, but there was no mistaking that angry, piercing stare or those crystal-blue eyes. Lilith addressed the human to confirm her suspicion. "Ah, yes, I remember you. "Bow-shcer," was it?"
"THAT'S "BOSCHA," YOU IDIOT!" Boscha loudly retorted seconds before she realized her slip-up. Amity could only facepalm in her frustration, both at the slip-up and at Lilith's smug sense of self-satisfaction.
"A body-swap spell?" The Coven leader clucked her tongue. "This is no doubt Edalyn's handiwork, which you can further explain at the Conformatorium!"
"NO!" Amity rushed to defend Boscha. "This was done to her as a prank, she had no say in any of it."
Lilith's attitude to her formal pupil became significantly more impassive. "Stand aside, Amity, we can discuss your renewed training once I've sorted this mess out."
"I haven't agreed to-"
"So, "Baw-Shaw." Will you be coming along quietly, or-?"
"I DO NOTHING QUIETLY, YOU PASTY-ASS BIDDY!"
Boscha charged the older witch, and with all her fury, she threw a mighty punch. Then she threw another, and another, and another, each punch gradually increasing in strength and passion. If Lilith wasn't keeping her at arm's length by her forehead, maybe some of those punches would have connected.
"ARGH! Why do I keep forgetting the weak nerd arms?!" Poor Boscha continued to struggle and swing away in vain.
The whole spectacle was amusing to Lilith. "Oh, dear child, resisting a member of the Emperor's Coven, no matter how adorably, is an offense punishaBLEGH!"
To Boscha's shock, Lilith fell to the ground unconscious, incapacitated by a double-fisted hammer swing courtesy of Amity's abomination.
"COME ON!" Amity didn't even wait for a response as she grabbed Boscha by the arm and ran away.
"Damnity, Amity..." Boscha remarked as she practically dangled from Amity's grip. "...I can't believe you'd take such a big risk to save me. The trouble you could get in. I really appreciate-you're just protecting Luz's body, aren't you?"
Amity didn't say a thing. She only spared a side glance and a sly grin.
Sorry about it being a bit short, Garth and I haven't had much time to sit down and write as much as usual. Follow, Favorite, and Review for more.