The creature hissed, mostly because it was losing its grip, and a moment later the more canine features it had started giving away to a young girl's face, the fur atop head giving way to her shaggy brown hair, and her posture of being crouched on all fours abandoned as she finds she can stand upright.

More importantly, Luz remembers. Moments with Varian where she watched him work, was frustrated when he neglected himself, teasing him in her own way, came flooding back. the Bond was strong, and the goodwill he was trying to extend to her was enough to remind her how much she valued him, needed him. She paused, hearing the growl from her other housemate, and turned to him.

Granted, she has no clothes right now (thank you corruption), but staring into Varian's eyes a moment, Luz knows what she has to do. She turned her face to Luca, him towering over her in his serpent form, and she gave him a hug, despite how dangerous this was, how hard and scaly his body felt, and that he could just as easily eat her right now. She closed her eyes and sent to him her feelings of appreciation, how his kindness and his interest reinvigorated her own appreciation of how varied and different everyone was, and how much she wanted to learn about them all. Luca was, in his own way, the reminder she was still that person, and how much she wanted him to stay that way.