The whole plague of Feldar the Wanderer and doomed nightmares had passed and life was back to normal in Vadina, no one seemed to remember what had happened because the witches three had done daylight spells to reverse the nightmare spells of Feldar. Well, everyone forgot the Feldar incident, everyone except Bloom, Amora, Lilith, the three witches and Neyastra who was still slightly traumatized after seeing the fake Amora turn into Feldar who locked her in the field of nightmares.
After getting out of the ordeal, Neyastra couldn't speak for a couple of days and when she finally spoke, all she said was "Amora is Feldar" but no one seemed to understand what she kept saying. Even in the learning halls, she usually got into a panic frenzy anytime she sets eyes on Amora.
"What in the name of the moon goddess is wrong with you Neyastra? You keep causing a scene whenever you see that Daeva girl" Fiammetta snapped at her one time during lunch time when Neyastra had acted strange , suddenly getting goosebumps when they passed by Amora and Bloom's table.
"I don't know Fiammetta, there's something about her that seems scary and I can't help it" Neyastra said close to sobbing.
"Get your act together Neyastra, stop whatever it is alright, stop giving off signs of weakness. We are witches and witches of noble birth, we don't show weakness" Solana pitched in.
"Yes Neya,Solana is right, she's just a Daeva who just discovered magic" Alena said too.
Bloom kept telling Amora tales of the nightmare mishaps and how she and Lilith had helped restore normalcy to Vadina.
" I know Bloom, you were extremely brave and I owe you one" Amora rolled her eyes at Bloom who repeated that Amora owed her one.
" Perhaps I'd want you to give me some of your other realm clothes and teach me little of their ways" Bloom replied with a feigned strict tone in her voice.
Amora burst into a very hysterical round of laughter and Bloom stopped to look at her laughing friend who was turning red from the fit of laughing.
"You want my other realm clothes? My Vans, my Nikes? Seriously? How would you look wearing jeans huh Bloomie? I am quite used to seeing you wear your gowns and capes" Amora was still giggling and Bloom was getting upset.
Amora noticed Bloom's frown and then she stopped laughing and drew her close in a playful hug and nudged her. "Come on Bloomie, drop the frown,was just pulling your legs" she said.
"I still want some of your clothes Mora and you'll teach me those awkward dance steps you do with your hips and waist" Bloom stated seriously.
"You mean my Brazilian whining and twerking?" Amora asked.
"Whatever you call it, you are teaching me and no creature in Mystian lands will stop that" Said Bloom.
Amora agreed to her friend's request with a smile, after all, Bloom had saved her from the land of nightmares.
Amora helped Lady Olette in the kitchen to make dinner and saved some honeycakes for Lilith as an appreciation gift but Lilith never showed during the family dinner and Grandma Daeva talked about it over and over again, spiting Easton, her father.
"You should tame that daughter of yours Easton,she keeps defiling the rules of this family and bringing shame to our nobility" she said sternly to Easton.
"Mother, quit talking about Lilith in that manner. She's only a child and is suffering from her mother's death" Easton said in defense of Lilith.
"Only a child? Easton! I must say, you are spoiling her rotten son, yes she doesn't regard you and you are the very cause of your own calamity. A child at nineteen? All girls that age are getting pruned and primmed up in expectations of being courted or even married. All she does is act like she is a demon and you call her a child?" Grandma Daeva was raising her voice now. Amora noticed that the other members of the family at the table didn't say a word as this word exchange ensuing between mother and son. Easton's eyes darkened as he leapt to his feet and was very angry.
"I won't let you talk about me or Lilith like that Mother, I won't" he pushed his chair backwards and made to leave but Grandma Daeva snapped her fingers and the chair trapped Easton.
"You wouldn't dare walk out on me Easton, I am your mother and you will respect me as such" Grandma's eyes flashed red with anger as sparks appeared on her fingers. Easton also snapped his finger and the chair broke in two, freeing him, he walked out.
"Easton, Easton come back here" Grandma Daeva yelled but Easton already opened a portal and walked through it, disappearing from their presence.
Amora was the most surprised as Grandma Daeva sat back down and began acting like nothing ever happened.
"Weird! Does this happen all the time?" Amora asked Cascade with a whisper. "Do not talk to meat the table" Cascade replied with her chin high and continued eating.
"Snub" Amora said under her breath as she went on observing her weird new family and their ways which she considered pretentious and full of unnecessary drama.
Amora took the tray of honey cakes and went up to the chamber hallway, in search of Lilith's chambers. Luckily for her, the house was an enchanted one so ,just as she had learned, she asked the hallway which chamber was Lilith's and there was a blue light at the end of the hallway and she went towards the light that shimmered on Lilith's chamber door. She swallowed hard as she turned the cold door knob to open the door. The door creaked open and she peered inside only to see thick darkness and chilly breeze oozing from the chamber.
"Uh,hello? Lilith?" She called and immediately regretted not knocking before opening the door. She went inside the room anyway, ready to face whatever trap Lilith had.
The chamber was pitch black and she could still feel the chilly breeze inside the chamber. "Lilith? Are you in here? I brought some honey cakes" she said.
"Oh I wish I could see" she said and suddenly the chamber's lights went on and Amora could see the place clearly now and it was the most magnificent room she had ever seen. The room had white clouds floating around way up in what looked like a ceiling, the clouds were just like ceilings in the room only that they were alive, moving slowly like normal clouds outside. The bed was made with the finest wood and was coated in black and purple paint. The vanity table had a large mirror and some weird liquids and powders that Amora thought to be Lilith's makeup. She touched one bottle and shook it trying to see it's contents. The ceiling clouds moved to one spot above Amora and they were turning black. Amora was ignorant of this as she kept touching bottles of different contents. Amora looked up when she heard a rumbling noise and saw that the cloud was already very dark and lightening flashed in them. She had seen this kind of cloud before when Lilith had made it rain in everyone during dinner and it was about to rain on her. She quickly dropped the tray containing the honeycakes and made to run but the cloud followed her violently.
She got out of the chamber thinking the cloud would stay put but it followed her, ready to burst it's content on her.
"Oh shit!" She cursed as the cloud burst open and it began to rain heavily on her. Linetta heard the noise and came out of her chambers with her dolls and saw Amora trying to wave off the cloud but it rained harder.
"Stay away from gloomy stormie we said, but here you are now" She said with a laugh.
"Can you stop this?" Amora asked as she was still being soaked by the rain.
"No I can't, only Lilith can. It's the Lilith chamber curse on Intruders. Only she can send the clouds back" Linetta said and then went back to her chamber. Amora bent down staring at the water flow from the rain and wondered why anyone would flood the house with water because someone entered her room without permission.
"Why were you in my chamber?" Lilith's voice startled Amora and she immediately looked up to see the frowning Lilith who had appeared from nowhere.
"Jeez you scared me Lily, do you always love acting all mysterious?"
"The name is Lilith, don't ever call me Lily" Lilith snapped at her.
" Alright Lilith, Sorry. Please do you mind calling off your clouds before I catch a cold? I only came to give you some honey cakes in appreciation"
"I do not need your appreciation Amora, don't go about entering dreams you can't escape" Lilith said dryly and went into her chamber and slammed the door , leaving Amora to further drench under the clouds still raining heavily on her.
"But the clouds! Lilith!" Amora yelled out and then the clouds disappeared into Lilith's chambers. "Thank you" Amora said shakily and hurried into her chambers to get out of her wet clothes and take some aspirin. Louisa had always made sure Amora had aspirin and little first aid kit wherever she went and Amora now had managed to pack them.
The next day was Sávvatriâ in Vadina which Bloom had already explained to Amora was one of the days the learning halls was closed and everyone stayed at home, in other words, Sávvatriâ was the beginning of the weekend in Vadina. The members of the Daeva house were at breakfast and acted normal like nothing happened the previous night and for the first time, Amora saw Lilith seated beside her father for breakfast and there was a slight resemblance between them only that Lilith's skin was a tone darker and her hair was purple, although side shaved. Lilith ate silently while the Daeva matriarch involved the others in a discussion.
"You know it's Jesper and Linetta's nameday today" Grandma spoke and the two mentioned kids giggled between themselves.
"They were born the same day?" Amora asked.
"Ah yes they were, just a few hours apart. It's their eighth nameday today and we'll be having a small tea party for them in the gardens after their munæa numīnisīä arrives" Olette spoke with grace.
"muna what now?" Amora asked sounding really confused.
"munæa numīnisīä means gifts from the deities. On the eighth nameday of every Vadinian, the gods sends their twin messengers Neveah and Lleh with special gifts unique to only the celebrants" Sereia explained.
"Did I get a gift too?" Amora inquired.
" Yes you did dear child, it was with that gift we knew you were alive and when word got around Vadina and Mystia, goblins and gnomes and even other Vadinians tried to claim your identity by changing their forms hence the cauldron test" Grandma Daeva explained to Amora.
The explanations went on and just then there was a wind swoosh heard outside and two knocks.
"Our munæa numīnisīä is here" Linetta giggled and rushed to the door while the others followed her. Grandma Daeva opened the door and it was indeed the gifts that arrived. Two parcels held in some kind of ancient gold box with inscriptions stood there. The bigger one had Jesper's name on it while the other one, smaller in size,had Linetta's name on it. The two children took their individual gifts laughing happily. Amora thought that it was really marvelous to be gifted by the gods on your eighth birthday and wondered what the gifts held and what hers would be.
"Mother why is mine smaller?" Linetta whined as she saw Jesper holding his big box and examining it.
"Now dear, don't whine or the gods will make it disappear" Grandma warned. "Jesper, go ahead and open your gift" she urged the boy.
Jesper waved his hands above the gift and the box glimmered with a white light and clicked open. Jesper waited to see his gift and out came a puppy and everyone cooed. The puppy was nothing like the puppies she had seen. This puppy was brown and black spotted but with two different heads.
"Oooh mother it's my very own diplœ" Jesper sounded very much happy as the double headed puppy jumped on him and licked him. "that tickles" Jesper laughed.
"Why does that dog have two heads?" Amora asked.
"That's a diplœ Amora, they are the very pets of Xeria the goddess of good tidings. Her bigger diplœ must have reproduced and the gods decided to gift Jesper one of them. The diplœ is a very loyal animal and would grow bigger and monstrous to protect its owner" Ruslan explained to the fascinated Amora.
"What are you going to call it Jes?" Dorian asked the excited Jesper.
"Hmmmm... Jirou. I'll call them Jirou" Jesper said and the the double headed puppy barked and jumped on him again.
It was Linetta's turn to open her gift and the little girl took a little breath and then waved her hand above her gift and the box clicked open shimmering with the same white light that had shown in Jesper's box. Linetta's box revealed a silvery-like stick with butterfly designs on it and beside it was a necklace with butterfly pendant.
"Oh my goodness Linetta, that's the Aizïl wand and pendant. It manifests whatever the owner wants and can only work with them" Grandma Daeva explained. Linetta's eyes were filled with awe as she picked up her wand and pendant. She put on the pendant and immediately, the pendant glowed with the wand.
"Manifest something Netta" Easton urged her.
Linetta closed her eyes and waved the wand and manifested butterflies in the entire room.
"So beautiful" Amora thought as the colourful butterflies filled the room.
Lilith began to sneeze violently and gently excused herself as she was allergic to butterflies.
Grandma Daeva presented Amora with her own box that had been safely kept for ten years and when Amora touched it, the box clicked open and two tiny fairy like beings that Grandma had described as moon fairies had flown out.
"Goodday Ulanni Daeva, my name is Aegaeon, and this is my sister Neoma and we are at your service" The male looking fairy bowed before Amora and everyone clapped. The fairies were slightly silvery in color. Amora found out that these moon fairies were the helpers of the moon goddess and were to assist their owners and apparently, only Amora owned them in the entire Vadina.
The tea party was held as said in the garden and Amora could not help but be happy and thankful.
"I could get used to being a Daeva" She said to herself as she sipped her honeymead and watched the celebrants dance around with their gifts.