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Season #2 Episode #4: Keeping up A-fear-ances

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Eda:
Whoa!

[Eda narrowly avoids a falling crystal, spins her staff to shatter the rest, then narrowly avoids another falling crystal.]

Eda:
(stares at ground oddly) Knife season came early this year.

[A large shadow looms over Eda. Eda looks up, screams and jumps back, narrowly avoid a large crystal. She lies on the ground, looking shocked. A bunch of feathers pops out of her.]

Luz:
(gasps) She's stressed.

[Luz takes out an elixir from her pouch. She is about to throw it to Eda, but Gwendolyn grabs her hand and stops her.]

Gwendolyn:
Oh, no, no, no. The texts say those feathers mean we're driving the beast out.

Luz:
Oh. (stares down at the elixir with a worried expression)

Gwendolyn:
(puts her hand on the elixir) Don't worry. After today, Eda will never have to drink those nasty little things again.

Luz:
(smiles) All right. What do we do next?

Gwendolyn:
Next, we're gonna put that beast (releases a puff of smoke from her bag, which forms a cloud with a face) on ice.

[The cloud spouts out ice cloud from its mouth.]

[Back at the Owl House, Lilith and King are lying on the couch. They both groan from eating too much ice-cream.]

King:
How do you get a parent's attention?

Lilith:
Heck if I know. Mother wasn't even at my Coven Initiation. (munches another spoonful of ice-cream)

King:
At least you know what she looks like. (sits up) All I have is an old wall carving. What if that's just graffiti?

Hooty:
(opens the door) Heh, that's, uh, (stretches into the living room) that's an awful lot of ice cream you guys are eating. (stretches towards Lilith with a wary expression) You know Eda gets that stuff from the Night Market, right?

Lilith:
(points at Hooty accusingly) Are you my mother? Because that is an awful lot of judgment.

King:
This stinks. (throws away the ice cream container on his head) If my dad doesn't care about me, why should I (drops Francois) care about him? Hmm? Well, I'm not going to him. He's gonna have to come to me! (lies down with his arms crossed)

Lilith:
(sits up angrily) And I am sick of being overlooked. From now on I... (stands up angrily) I have no mother! And I... I'd say that to her face!

King:
(stands up) Yeah!

Hooty:
(hesitantly) Isn't that taking it a bit too far?

King:
It's not taking it far enough. Go tell her. (gestures towards outside) Go on. She's right outside.

Lilith:
(surprised) She is???

King:
Yeah, I saw her go off with Luz. I think they're gonna heal Eda's curse or whatever.

Lilith:
(realization) Uh, oh. Is that so? Mother paying attention to Edalyn... again. I mean, (waves her hands) it's not like I care.

[Lilith sets her arms akimbo and grins. A bunch of feathers pop out of her face. Hooty slowly retreats away from her.]

King:
(hesitantly) You got, uh, uh... (points to his face) You got a little, uh, hmm…

[Lilith gasps, then turns around to lift up the couch seat.]

Lilith:
WHERE- (notices the elixirs gone)

[Lilith lifts up the flower pot.]

Lilith:
ARE- (notices the elixirs gone too)

[Lilith opens the cupboard door.]

Lilith:
THE ELIXIRS?! (finds it empty)

[Lilith starts covering her face and sobs. A while later, she drops to the ground on her knees, still sobbing. King pops out from behind the door.]

King:
(hesitantly) Lilith?

[King walks into the room. Hooty follows King from behind. Lilith suddenly jolts up and lets out a terrifying scream. Her eyes turn black and her voice becomes deeper. Scene cuts to Hooty and King watching Lilith turn into the Raven beast with a terrified expression. Her shadow looms over the duo.]

King:
(tries to offer his ice-cream) …Weh?

[Scene cuts back to the forest.]

Eda:
(climbs up a cliff) This… better be… the oldest, strongest, stinkiest apple blood (looks up) ever.

[Eda sees a sign which says “IT REALLY IS ¡THAT GOOD!” and screams in frustration. She then begrudgingly keeps on walking, but accidentally slips on some gooey substance.]

Eda:
Ah! (balances herself, looks down at her shoes and groans) I just stole these.

[Eda keeps on walking, but accidentally steps into a trap covered with leaves, which sends her flying upwards, screaming. Gwendolyn looks at this with a serious expression while Luz is shocked at the sight of this.]

Gwendolyn:
It seems like the curse isn't my daughter's only problem.

[Eda screams and lands on a bush. Her owl staff flies to her.]

Eda:
(reaches out to her staff) Help Mama up.

Luz:
Gwen, (turns to Gwendolyn) we tried freezing the curse out, we tried sweating the curse out, we even tried (shrugs) flying snakes for some reason.

[Down below, Eda is running away from 2 flying snakes, screaming as Luz and Gwendolyn watch on.]

Luz:
I don't think this stuff is working. Did Wortlop ever say where he learned this stuff? (looks to Gwendolyn)

Gwendolyn:
(to the crow phone) Yes, I'm sending it right away. (hangs up call, crow caws and flies up)

Luz:
(squints) What did you just do?

Gwendolyn:
It turns out (slips some gems into a pouch) the ancient tome is only the first (hands over the pouch to the crow) of a series. So, I'm trading in a few paltry family heirlooms to get the rest. (flips open the book to read)

Luz:
(dubious) Let me see that book. (walks towards Gwendolyn)

Gwendolyn:
(stops Luz) Halt. Only people who have scaled Wortlop's (displays her necklace) "Pyramid of Study" can touch the tome.

[Luz grabs the tome off Gwendolyn’s hands using vines from plant glyph.]

Gwendolyn:
Hey!

Luz:
(flips open book) What is this? Jar of bees for existential dread? Aromatherapy for broken legs? Bird songs for sufferers of stuffy noses?! (turns towards Gwendolyn) Gwen, you're being scammed! Wortlop is a fake.

Gwendolyn:
You really think I'd spend my life savings (takes back the tome) on a fake?

Luz:
I know you want what's best for Eda, and so do I. (takes out an elixir from her waist pouch) But I'm calling this off. (walks off and kneels down on one leg)

Gwendolyn:
Luz, (grabs her arm) I really thought (takes away the elixir) we were on the same side. According to Wortlop, poison like this is made by healers and potion makers who simply (flips open book) want money.

Luz:
(angrily) Are you kidding me?! You just... (pinches her eyebrows) Argh, whatever. I'll just get more at the house.

Gwendolyn:
I'm afraid that will be a waste of your time.

[Her palisman drops a sack filled with elixirs in front of Gwendolyn.]

Gwendolyn:
Hawksley cleared out every bottle hours ago.

Luz:
Whoa. (stands up angrily) Why would you do that???

Gwendolyn:
Because I am a mother who will do anything for her daughter.

[Gwendolyn tries to throw a bottle of elixir away, but Luz pounces on her and tries to grab the elixir, causing both of them to fall.]

Eda:
Ugh. (throws away a flying snake stuck in her hair) Woo, this ain't good.

[Behind Eda, both Gwendolyn and Luz scream as they fall from above. They land behind a bush, which grabs Eda’s attention. They both grimace in pain, with Gwendolyn rubbing her forehead.]

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