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Edric's pretty blurry when everything ends, courtesy of newly inflamed injuries and a cocktail of potions keeping him asleep, but eventually he comes to in his own bedroom with at least one bandage missing from last he remembers, which is a plus. 

And on the floor, at the foot of his cot really, sits Amity and... Emira?

Wait, nevermind, that's Willow, that dark green isn't his twin sister, okay there we go.

They're holding up a strange device, it's rectangular and glowing, and his brain cannot, for the life of him, identify it.

His throats way to sore to speak, but he lets out a groan to alert his little sister that he's up.

"Oh!" Amity exclaims jumping up. "Ed, what is it... right! Ed, on a scale of one to ten, how coherent are you."

Ed, not really wanting to use his voice right now, taps the pole with his cast seven times.

"Wait, do you need something?" Willow tries.

Edric nods. 

"Water?" Amity guesses, kudos that was first try, Mittens. 

Edric nods again.

"Dad!" Amity hollers, and Ed lets a small grin overtake his features because her hair is sagging and she's in a humongous sweater and she finally looks like a girl her age. "Ed needs something to drink!"

From down the hall comes a crash, then a "Give me two seconds, sweetie!" echoes through the house.

Ed's eyes trail back down to the thing held in Willow's hand. 

Willow looks down at it, then back up at him.

Ed tilts his head. 

"Do you... want to know what this is?"

Ed rolls his eyes. Duh. He follows it up with a nod, just in case his message wasn't clear.

"Oh, it's like a human scroll! It doesn't float or anything, but... eh, I don't know, human media is fun. And this" — she holds up the weird boxy thing around her neck — "is a human camera! It takes photo's and spits them out in squares, like memories, but they're not magic! And then you can pin them up anywhere, it's awesome."

Dad enters the room, and that's conversation over.

It's three weeks after the fact when Ed is comfortable to just waltz around the property, as long as he doesn't enter anywhere dangerous like his dad's lab ("Or another well," Emira teases.)

Amity says that she's jumping between the human and demon realm pretty frequently these days, just like Luz. She wants to show Edric around the human realm once he's back to at least 90%, she claims, and it makes Edric so excited for a reason he can't describe.

Not many demons got the luxury of seeing another realm entirely. Amity had lived there. She was like, an expert in all things human.

Edric kinda, sorta, wanted to see it all, maybe even spend or night or two over there learning all he could but that was a topic to digest when he was feeling not like his head was exploding. 

He was only slightly a nerd, okay?

He hasn't seen either of his sisters wear a concealment stone since everything went down, and honestly he doesn't feel like wearing one either.

They'd really only ever been mom's Odalia's thing, making sure that they always looked perfect for the family image, or whatever.

Of course, they couldn't ever have been teens first, Blights seconds with her.

His sisters are back in school, he'll be starting again next week, and they come home as bright as the sun every single time.

A temporary apocalypse really drives home how lucky they are for a mundane day to day, it turns out. Amity's lost her first-place spot now that she's in one of the gifted kid groups, and it's upping her motivation tenfold.

Amity's hair is still its pale lilac colour, it's a shade well enough for re-dying it but every time the topic comes up she turns it down flat. The roots are nearly past the edge of her eyes.

Emira keeps hers green, but with a little more upkeep. Says that she wants to take the colour back from the ghosts.

Edric sort of agrees with that sentiment. They're not letting Odalia control their lives anymore, and part of that is acknowledging that it's okay to not be her polar opposite, as challenging as that is to remember.

The newest parts of Amity's circle are Gus Porter, the most power-full 12-year-old in the school naturally, and the literal Golden Guard, except he's not the Golden Guard and literally shuts down upon hearing his old life being acknowledged.

There's also, apparently, a basalisk back in the human realm, but Ed does not feel like touching on that until he sees the girl himself.

The group he does see when he goes back to school, though, looks like they're doing wonders for Amity, even if Luz is only taking classes here during the human summer months.

Her pig snort is coming back with full force, which is adorable, and her reaction time to it is already getting longer and longer, which he loves because her laugh had been silent for so long and he finally gets to treasure it again.

One other thing, she's pretty much always in human clothes when she's not in her uniform, and he's pretty sure that only about 20% of her new outfit cycle belongs to Luz, which begs the question of how she got all those clothes, or at least the money to pay for them. Mittens, bless her heart, is too polite to let anyone do something for her, last that Ed had checked. But maybe things had changed when he stopped looking for a little.

In the end, it doesn't really matter, he decides, as he watches the Azura movie that up until today had only existed in the human realm, cuddling his cheek against Amity's soft (Titan, it was so soft he was never moving) sweater shoulder. 

It's good to see her happy again.

It's good to see everyone happy again, of course, but he's been trying to make Amity feel better for literal years and finally, that knot is gone and he feels as though he can breath deeply.

It's a year after everything when someone finally figures out how to remove the sigil curses.

Funnily enough, it's Lilith Clawthorne, ex-Emperors coven, sister to the Owl Lady.

They sell the potion like crazy, and it's technically allowed even if it's a bit of a scheme, and of course the Owl Lady recruits her gaggle of children, now including Ed and Em, to stop anyone from selling it without her strict permission, or to Odalia Blight.

That secondary edition has him pausing, and then it registers that it's bad for the woman and Ed laughs, and laughs, and laughs.

He thinks he should feel bad, but hey, he'd never had the best moral compass. 

To celebrate the twin's 17th birthday, Amity buys them matching sweaters, the same material as her kitty sweater that they love to rub against because of just how damn soft the thing was. 

Ed's never felt better in his entire life, he decides.

He thinks the entier family shares that sentiment.