Well, at least they're speaking that's- that's good. He doesn't think he ever did speak, though his memories of his own beasthood are blissfully foggy, so he can't be sure. Still, it's a good sign and he's going to cling to it desperately. He can see Luca isn't happy about this, and he's pretty sure if Luz wasn't there, he'd be toast. He'd avoided the emotional bond with Luca to save him carrying the burdens he carts around with him all the time- but perhaps now it would have made this a lot easier.

He tries to keep his tone even- to think calming thoughts at Luz- to steady his breathing and hope that has some sort of effect on Luca.

"Neither of you deserves to be monsters, you're good people. I'm sure we can figure this out, get to the bottom of what did this to you both, okay? But I need both of you to come back to do that- I don't want to lose either of you, so please, come back to us, okay?"