"I'll be around to make sure that things stay that way! I'm not saying you would, but sometimes this place can put things in your path and you might be forced to."

She might as well be truthful about it.

"What? I wouldn't be that crazy! At least, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't!"

Even though Luz was still thinking about how to do the ritual, sick as she was right now.

Luz nodded. Those serious conversations would happen once she was ready to tell her, just as she had to prepare herself to talk about the cannibals and the cave last time. That had taken time, and so would this.

"What can I say? You bring them out of me. You're just that great."

"I wouldn't say it's that, so much that developing that magic when I'm so far from where I would learn about it takes a lot of dedication. I was already learning it from scratch to begin with, but I at least felt a connection to what I was doing. Here, the idea of having another magic that I somehow have IN me is harder to think about. Personally, my own magic is always going to come first, since it's the one I started with."

Luz giggled. "See, now I'm even MORE curious how you'd look with them on! Somehow I feel like you'd still find a way to make them look cute!"

And now Luz is just blushing. "Uh. Your omens?"

She was being silly now, but Lexi was right in that Luz would absolutely have her back, whatever she needed.