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In a bedroom of a small apartment one Dorothy Gale is packing a suitcase for a weekend trip. As she puts one of her gingham dresses in her suitcase, her wife Ozma enters the apartment. Seeing Dorothy packing Ozma says. "Packing already. Guess I should get on that."
Pointing to an already-packed suitcase Dorothy says. "No need. I've already packed yours."
"Ohh excited for the trip are we?"
"Yes, I am. It was awfully nice for Luz to invite all of us to her realm."
"It is. I've always wanted to see another fairyland. Also, I wasn't at the last meeting who else is coming with?"
"Just us. Anne is visiting her 'friends' and Ms.Liddell just looked sad and declined."
"So it's a romantic retreat. We haven't had one of those in a while."
"Luz is going to be there so I don't think it really will be one. I do wonder who the new ruler is after Luz took care of the last one."
"Hoping to trade me in for a prettier queen."
"Nonsense, there couldn't be a queen prettier than you. Should I bring my magic belt with us?"
"Probably shoud. Luz's realm sounds full of witches and we both know how evil witches can be. Also are you ready to leave?"
"Just have to tell Toto to take care of the apartment." Then taking on a more serious tone Dorothy adds. "Also be on your best behavior. I know you aren't fond of magic but Luz's witches are nice people who helped her."
"Got it. I'll be nice as long as they don't turn me into a peach pit or a boy."
Dorothy then left the bedroom to begin lecturing her dog on apartment care. Ozma took this optionality to look through the suitcase that Dorothy packed for her. "She only packed me dresses. I should add a more Tip like outfit in case we have to rough it."
Later that day Dorothy and Ozma walk through a door into a nice homely living room with a framed wanted poster depicting a demon dog, an old woman, and Luz. Shortly afterward Luzs enters behind them and says. "Welcome to the Owl house." She punctuates this statement with a light show from the papers she always carries."
Dorothy looks around and says. "It's quite nice. Reminds me of the house Uncle Henry built for himself back in Oz."
"Glad you like it, but I gotta scram. Tutoring some kids in glyphs. I'll be back later in the meantime Eda will take care of you." says Luz as she grabs a staff with a bat on top of it which she uses to fly out of the door."
"Did you know that Luz was a criminal Dorothy?"
"Yup but I didn't think it was a big deal. Some of the best people we know are criminals. I mean you were one under Jinjur, so was Ojo under you, and I'm sure the wizard was a criminal at one point."
"Good point."
After a moment of silince a figure could be seen by the pair coming down the stairs into the living room. The figure, who is presumably the Eda Luz left them with, has a mane of gray hair and is wearing a red cloak. She then, sounding a bit annoyed, says. "Luz said she was leaving some friends here not kids for me to take care of again."
"Hello, Ms.Eda. I'm Dorothy and she's Ozma. Also, we're not kids we are in fact 136."
"Titan, you two are older than me how'd you manage that?"
"Well I'm a fairy and my wife stopped aging at 14."
"Don't really understand how being a fairy factors in but whatever. Get ready for Eda's tour of the isles."
Eda was taking the pair through the Bonesbourgh market Occasinly while passing something Eda would say a factoid about or go into a story involving the place. The market reminded Dorothy lots of the bazars that would pop up in the emerald city during important dates like a birthday. Something in one of the stalls that they were passing by caught Ozma's eyes and she made a grab for it. However, she was stopped from taking it when the Stall owner grabs her arm and yells. "Hey, you gotta pay for that!"
"Sorry," Ozma says and she pulls out some dollar bills and a gold coin of Ev. "Which would you like."
"I don't take baloney money. Snails or nothing." says the owner getting more agitated.
Noticing the agitation Eda steps in handing the owner some coins and say. "Sorry bout that she new around here." Then she drags Ozma away from the booth. "Mighty ballsy to try and steal right in front of him."
"I was not trying to steal. I am just normally don't have to pay for stuff."
"Not paying! Ha, what are you a princess or something."
"Well we're Queens but nobody pays for anything in Oz you can just take things if you want it."
"Sounds like a nice place gotta visit sometime."
"Ohh that would wonderful. I'll make you and Luz Aunt Em's pie when you come over."
The next day Luz took Ozma and Dorothy on another tour of the Isles. However this time it was a flying one led by Luz. This one was much more interesting and with fewer incidents than Eda's tour. Dorothy thinks that it was a bit morbid that the land was built on a corpse and wonders if the boiling sea was made for the same reason as the deadly desert. The tour was brought to a close with a lunch with Amity, Luz's girlfriend.
"What do you do Amity?" Asks Dorothy who did not realize that the spaghetti came with eyeballs instead of meatballs and was wishing she ordered the Salad like Ozma.
"The closest human equivalent to my job would be a police officer. Though I mostly deal with people who want to bring back the emperor for some reason. What about you two, are you students like Luz?"
"We are but we're also queens of Oz. It's a much better job than working on the farm back in Kansas."
"Or being a slave." Added Ozma.
"A what!! Did you say what I think you did?" says Luz who suddenly stood up and slammed the table.
"Yeah, old Mombi had me as a slave and magiced me into a boy until I escaped."
"That's horrible I couldn't imagine doing that," says Amity then to try and lighten up the conversation asks. "Anyways how did you two meet? You are together right."
"Ozma rescued me from a princess who wanted to steal my head. What about you two?"
"Well, I was pretending to be an abomination when-"
The weekend ended the next morning with them all going back to the human realm on Sunday as all three of them needed to prepare for their classes. They split up with promises of going to Oz next hopefully with more of the group though.