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‘Eda, you okay?’ Luz asked, peering at the witch from behind the doorway of her room. The floor had clothes and jewellery scattered all over, as the girl stepped over the clutter to get to the other side of the bedroom.
‘Mhm. Mhm! Why wouldn’t I be? It’s just the biggest day of my life, that’s all.’ She laughed nervously, staring at her reflection warily as she tried to pull together her misbehaving hair (which proved to be much harder to do with only one hand).
‘Urgh!’ Eda cried, as locks of silver fell out of her grasp. She slumped down onto the table she was facing, her fingers clutching her head. Luz sat next to her, and gave a reassuring smile.
‘I promise nothing will go wrong today. Why would it? Everyone here loves you!’ She cried, hugging Eda, ‘How about I get Lilith in here to do your hair, huh? She’s good at that stuff!’
‘It’s not just that,’ Eda groaned, ‘I have to do my makeup, and get my clothes, and get ready and actually show up .’
‘Alright,’ Luz said, taking it as a challenge, ‘Amity can do your makeup, I’ll help you get ready, and showing up will be… the easiest part!’
Eda raised her head to face the young witch, her mouth open in an unbelieving grimace.
‘The easiest part? Luz, do you know how close I am to ditching this altogether?’
‘But, you won’t!’ Smiled Luz, ‘Because this is all you ever wanted and you, the Owl Lady , aren’t going to let some nerves throw you off.’
‘What if they change their mind?’ She worried, as Luz pulled out her scroll and started typing.
‘What if, what if… they aren’t even here? And got abducted!’ Eda stood, her mind racing with theories, ‘What if! This is all… an illusion?’
Eda turned sharply to Luz, an eyebrow raised, and slowly poked her cheek.
‘I’m real, Eda.’ Chuckled Luz, nervously, ‘And you need to stop worrying.’
‘Help has arrived!’ Amity announced, as she strolled into the room, clutching her makeup bag, Lilith following behind her.
‘Edalyn, I haven’t seen you this stressed since the Day of Unity!’ Lilith chuckled, ‘and you were stressed .’
‘I’m about to get married, Lily, what do you expect?’ Grumbled Eda, as she sat up to let her sister start combing through her hair, and allow Amity to apply a coat of pink blush to her cheeks, 'This is life and death...kind of. Metaphorically?'
Luz grinned and gave Eda an enthusiastic thumbs up. She frowned back.
‘You’ll be fine!’
‘Thanks, kid.’ She sighed, and finally gave a small smile.
Sometime later, she looked in the full length mirror, turning at different angles to get a good view of her clothes, of her face. Her hair was pulled back into a simple ponytail, a few curled strands framing her face, just as she liked it, but was intertwined with flowers and small snapdragons that Willow had been kind enough to grow.
The rosiness of Eda’s cheeks highlighted her red lips, and her silver and gold irises popped against her thick eyelashes, with her signature eyeliner and a glow of maroon eyeshadow to top it all off.
She had a white blouse on, which had long, billowing sleeves that draped off of one of her elbows, and flowed off the stump of her arm on the other, tucked into a sleek skirt which seeped into an ombre of bright white to deep maroon, the colour matching her red heels. Despite her gorgeous and (surprisingly) neat state, she felt like a mess on the inside. Her palm was clammy and she kept wiping it on the fabric of her skirt, and she felt her chest tightening, making her breathing shallow.
‘Ready, witchlet?’
Eda jumped, gasping.
‘Dad! You scared me.’
‘Sorry,’ Dell chuckled, ‘Something making you a little high-strung?’
‘Ha, ha, very funny,’ Eda rolled her eyes, ‘Is it… time?’
‘You tell me. Are you ready?’ He asked, putting a hand on Eda’s shoulder.
‘No.’ She answered, sighing to herself, and he smiled at his daughter.
‘You might not feel ready for this moment, right now. But you’re ready to spend the rest of your life with that bard - I can see it in the way you look at them. So why don’t you take my hand, and we can go to that aisle, and you trust me when I say it’s all going to be okay?’ Dell suggested, offering his able hand.
Eda looked at her dad and smiled softly, before putting her shaky palm in his.
‘Thanks, dad.’ She whispered, and they made their way out of the Owl House to their palismen.
The hill glowed softly in the setting sun, bursts of wildflowers in the lush grass. The seats had been precariously balanced so they wouldn’t tip over, surrounding a long white carpet that led to a vibrant plant-made arch in the centre.
Dell, Eda and Lilith were at the bottom of the hill, out of sight from the waiting audience.
‘You can do this, witchlet,’ He kissed the top of his daughter’s head, ‘compared to other things you’ve done, this will be a breeze.’
‘I’ve been in countless, life threatening battles, I’ve escaped prison many times, and I’ve had the owl beast torture me for longer than I can remember,’ She huffed, ‘And I’ve still never felt this nervous.’
‘Well, that’s not surprising,’ Lilith said, ‘You’re giving your life away to someone forever, bonding the pair of you infinitely till the day you die.’
‘Thanks, Lily. Much less pressure now.’ Eda mumbled.
‘But that someone is the love of your life,’ Lilith finished, smiling, ‘Now, go, go! People have been waiting long enough.’
As Eda walked up the hill, her father keeping her stable while she walked upwards in heels, she felt like her knees were going to buckle any second. Every inch of her was buzzing and every joint was shaking. She kept her eyes focused on the ground, even as gasps from friends and family were heard at the sight of her, and a soft stillness took over the air.
She felt faint, she felt like she was going to throw up-
Until she saw Raine.
Raine, in their white dress that matched hers, wearing a maroon jacket, with a snapdragon corsage. Raine who gaped at her, mouth open, as their eyes that were practically sparkling, followed the woman they loved. Raine who held her hand tight, and gazed into her face as she reached the arch, Darius standing near them, elegantly dressed, watching, with the Boiling Isles ceremonial scripts in front of him.
Eda was vaguely aware of King and Hooty standing behind her, smiling widely, and of the Whispers family and the BATTs behind Raine, but her focus was simply on them.
All of her nerves dissipated and she felt safe, stronger, just from their touch.
‘You’re… you’re…’ Raine shook their head, at a loss for words.
‘Oh this? This is just something I pulled together last minute.’ She joked, looking them up and down as the watching crowd chuckled.
‘You’re beautiful.’ She whispered, smiling widely, as they snorted, unbelieving.
‘You’re stunning.’ They replied, caressing her cheek.
‘As lovely as this is,’ Darius smirked, ‘We have a ceremony to get through. Would you lovebirds like to begin?’
Raine and Eda nodded confidently, and Darius began reading out the lines on the script that would bind the two together forever.
‘… and now for the vows. Eda, if you’d like to begin?’
She took a deep breath and grinned, ‘Raine. From the day I met you, I could already tell that I would fall in love with you. Sure, while we were dating, we had… a break,’ she paused to let the audience laugh, ‘But it was going to be me and you forever, wasn’t it? You glow, Raine - the music you make glows, your words glow, your smile glows. I- I was scared shitless of coming up here today, but as soon as I saw you, I remembered that it’s you. You complete me, and now you’re going to be stuck with me for the rest of your life! I love you, Rainestorm.’
‘I’m gonna cry!’ Hooty wailed, blowing hard into a tissue offered by Lilith, choking back tears of her own.
Raine was blinking back tears now, as were several others watching, as they sniffed and grinned goofily at her, utterly in love.
‘Eda, if I glow, then you do nothing but burn endlessly. I would call you the sun, but even that would be an understatement-'
'Oh my god you're so cringe.' Eda exclaimed, tears streaming down her cheeks as she squeezed her partner's hands.
'You radiate love and, and warmth for everyone around you. You embody life itself, and you are vibrant and loud and headstrong and unstoppable. I love you more than anything. You are the most incredible woman, and I cannot wait to call you my wife.’
Eda’s own eyes were filled with water, as Darius composed himself, and tried to subtly wipe his own eye.
‘O- okay. Um. That was. That was beautiful,’ He said, ‘Alright, Owlbert, now for the rings?’
Owlbert waddled between the pair, a velvet cushion balanced on his head with 2 rings on it.
‘Hey, good thing you didn’t rip the wrong arm off, huh?’ Eda snorted, as Raine rolled their eyes and slipped the silver ring onto her finger. She did the same, carefully, and they compared their hands, grinning widely at the sight.
‘I pronounce you partners! You may now kiss!’ Darius declared, to a burst of cheers, as Eda dipped Raine and kissed them deeply.
Eda pulled them back up, and hugged them tight, cheeks wet and soft pink as the cries of celebration and joy around them rung.
‘It’ll be us old hags till the end, huh?’ She grinned, and Raine nodded, smiling bashfully.
‘Till the end.’