[Luz would have been pretty happy to know that she had friends like that in the Boiling Isles that would defend her when she was gone. She didn't like thinking that people would do that to Lexi as if he opinion didn't mind.

Exactly. She wanted Lexi to just be HERSELF, not someone's accessory or someone's sibling, but her own girl and smart and amazing all on her own!

Well. Can't really do anything about that.

Luz couldn't help but smile a little more here]. That sounds so pretty coming from you.

[Oh, she was, and was winning Luz over pretty easily. If she liked Luz's eyes that easily, Luz could thrive on Lexi's smiles, which was like the first rays of sunshine for her].

Oh, Keaton. Classics are the best, and not so, uh, deliberate.

[It really was]!

Oh, I wouldn't have it any other way!

[Look, if they were going to find out exactly how into each other they were, Luz understood that they'd find out together].