Luz could relate to that feeling of being a burden on people. Sometimes she felt like that was all she was being, that people were just putting up with her because they were nice. That feeling, she knew, wasn't true, but still carried over from being in a world where things just happened to her and there was no real way to affect them.

But she wasn't on Earth, and she knew that people on the Boiling Isles and here were willing to help her. That was more than enough. The hug she willing was enveloped in and hugged back fiercely, glad that her brother had come back to her and didn't have a target on his back.

"Wait to tell him for right now. It's not a good month, and Varian already has a lot to think about. We don't want to overload him with stuff that's only going to frustrate him."

And possibly give him another heart attack.

"But you ARE a plant, Fern, and that's not bad. I don't think it is. So you can talk to other plants now. Maybe it'll be a good thing down the road, even if it really sucks right now. Sometimes things have a way of helping you later even if they don't feel so great now."