"Me too. Now you don't have to be here by yourself, and Rapunzel is helpful to have around too! I don't have as many chores to do around the house!"

Granted Luz had become pretty used to them now, so they didn't even bother her as much as they could have. Besides, she had plenty of other things to think about, as Varian was beginning to understand.

"Varian, I'm alive. I could have been taken apart. Am I corrupted now? A little bit. I told you, I've been trying to stay indoors and slowly work through it. I'm not a hundred percent, but I can at least hide some of the changes. Am I hurt? Not right now, but, well..."

Luz turned her back to him and lifted her shirt up. At her back were several deep imprints of where they had taken blood from Luz, ugly marks that were definitely not going away.

"I wanted you to know as much as you wanted ME to know about you. But I went through the farm! What's happened to you, that it progressed so badly?"