halfamoon | Day 4: Books!/ The Owl House, Amity

Title: Countless Adventures
author:

cornerofmadness
Summary: Amity truly believes in the power of reading
Rating: teen
Warnings: mild teen angst
Characters/Pairings: Amity Blight

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“Reading is a passport to countless adventures.” ~Mary Pope Osborne

Hauling an arm load of books down through the stacks, Amity listened to the boiling rains sizzling on the library’s roof. The storm had been predicted to hit tomorrow but, like so many oracular predictions, accuracy was not always that great. Her mother would never admit to it.

Amity didn’t mind the storm. She was happy as could be here in the library, no mother with expectations, friends with the same, a set of twins who lived to annoy her. It had been mostly empty as the storm hit within a half hour of closing time. She’d done her reading for the kids earlier in the day, thankful Boscha and her closest friends wouldn’t be caught dead in a library.

Aren’t you one of her best friends? Maybe, but it was more out of osmosis, a ‘cool kid’ swept along by the flow. It was something that made her mom happy.

Boscha would torment her mercilessly if she realized how much of a reader Amity was. Titan knew she did it to Willow all the time. Amity kept her mouth sealed shut when she knew she should defend the bookish. It was easier to go along to get along. She didn’t have the mental energy for that fight. If she had to read to the kids in secret, then so be it. Besides, it wasn’t much of a secret. A lot of the kids she read to had siblings in her class.

Reading opened the world up, put it on display. All the new ideas, all the ways one could visit places on the Isles through the pages, the way you could go back in time and visit with a stone sleeper or a Deadwardian baker or whatever you could imagine – like Azura whose witchcraft was nothing like their own – those were ideals worth fighting for. Amity would if she had to. She brought joy and a love of reading to those kids. They would be better for it.

Content, she shelved the last of her books and retreated to the little hidden room her boss allowed her to take over. Amity settled in, rain drumming on the roof, and picked up her book on a young witch who got lost in a time pool. Amity was pretty sure they were about to fall in love back in time. She wouldn’t want to miss that. Adventure awaited in those pages.