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"Good girl." Yue said quietly, patting the baby's head. Baby Wing stared at her in confusion, tilting her head to the side. She was still barely conscious of the world, but wasn't she just so cute? Yue and Orie often spent time each weekend visiting the nursery to check up on the baby. Now that Orie was a demon, she wasn't sure if she was allowed back though. "Of course you're allowed back." The lady at the counter said with a smile. "Don't be a stranger. Wing loves her aunties very much, isn't that right, Wing?" Baby Wing made a strange sound that was probably supposed to be giggling. "Once I graduate I might adopt her." Would Zinnia be alright with taking care of a child, though? Would she be against it? "I'm sure Zinnia would love it." Orie said with a little grin.
Orie was brought back to life. Yue never had a choice in the matter but in the end, she would have made the same decision so it wasn't really a big deal to her. She wasn't a witch anymore, but it wasn't as if she had had much magic anyways. She was a demon, but retained more of her human qualities this time, the only sign of her being a demon, other than her demonic energy, was the red markings all over her arms, dark red lines decorating them like chalk. She was even given a job as Constantina's official Inventor, a role the Elders made up in order to give to her. Already Orie had plans on introducing more Magitech to the lives of Constantinans, this time intending to make something to help those who lacked sufficient mana. They were rare, but some mages are born with such small mana pools that they can't cast even simple spells without passing out."Let's go, Wing looks tired now and there's more we have to do today." They still needed costumes for Hallow's Eve, but they still had a week to figure something out.
On the way home they saw the Aurora Wand Shop. It was currently closed, but due to the house arrest order Yue knew someone was here. Yue knocked on the door and then Claris opened it after a few minutes, using magic to control a broom to dust the place. Ever since the incident at the school, it seemed Claris was the one suppressed by the potion. The Elders are doing research to figure out what went wrong in order to bring her back, but for the time being Zolair was permitted to continue existing, so long as he was supervised whenever he went out in public. "What do you want." Zolair muttered, crossing his arms. He was pacified for the time being, due to Zinnia and the Elders promising to help and protect Claris from now on. "Claris still isn't back if that's what you're asking."
"We're just checking up on you." Yue said, crossing her arms. She still didn't forgive him, but she understood where he came from. If it felt like all of Constantina was ganging up to hurt Orie, Yue might have done the same thing Zolair did. Minus the taking over body aspect, because obviously that much was impossible and also she had her own body which was perfectly fine. "Making sure you're not thinking of attacking people again." Orie was a bit more heated, which was understandable. She was killed by him, after all. "As long as you guys keep up your part of the bargain, I won't." Zolair said with a surly frown, shaking his head. "So find a way to wake her up already." Sir Flammel was trying to help too, of course, he was on his travels searching for a way to save both Ulrich and Claris now.
There was one more visit they had to make.
Because Yue was the Silver Witch and Orie was the Inventor, they were allowed into the access room, built into part of the Containment Tree, which was the closest thing Constantina had to a prison. Protea Zonenshine was brought out to see them. Zinnia's old friend would be spending time here. Of course, she was also given private lessons on magic in the hopes that she could regain some of her old mana that Zeal had stolen from her. "Oh, it's you two. I was hoping Zinnia would come visit." With Zeal gone, Protea seemed happier, more at peace with herself. She didn't mind serving time, she knew she deserved it for all the lives she stole.
"Here, give this a try." Orie passed Protea a small device that looked something like a metal musical note. "Is this the thing you said you'd make?" Protea asked curiously, looking at it. She didn't seem to really know what to do with it. "Yes. It's an artificial mana bank. Every day you can store some of your surplus mana, and the bank will keep it so you can cast spells from it. It's still a prototype version, so I want you to stockpile a week's worth of mana and we'll test it out." That meant by the time it was Hollow's Eve, Protea would get to see if she could cast spells again. "Remember, no violent spells. Some people still haven't forgiven you yet." It would take some time before Protea earned forgiveness for what she did. "Tell Zinnia to visit, I miss her." Protea said with a kind smile. "And thanks, I'll do my best to test your advice out."
With that done, they could finally return home. "Do you think you'll be allowed to be at the Hollow's Eve?" Yue asaked Orie as they neared Zinnia's house - which, really, was their home now too. "I don't know?" Orie shrugged helplessly. "I don't mind just staying in my room and tinkering with Magitech though." She wasn't a big party person, but even so, Yue wanted her to come. "Maybe we can ask the Elders to-" Then someone jumped on her right as they opened the door. "Welcome home!" Rain said with a big happy smile as she climbed onto Yue's face. "Zinnia, they're home!" The mist demon called, wagging her tail happily.