Mother stands for comfort

[imaglyphwitch]

Who: Luz and you (and specifically with Luca)
What: Luz tries to resist the hex, and not mutate herself until she finally falls to beast hood
When: Middle of February (sorry Luz, no birthday for you)
Where: All around Trench

She'd read the sermon and was sure that was when the trouble began. Luz had thought, after getting others who'd been sympathetic and lent an ear to her troubles, that she might be able to ride out the crazy of this month, that she'd get to her birthday in relative peace. Unfortunately, things didn't get better: instead, Luz found herself plagues by the past: her father leaving, the scorn of being that "weird" kid in her class, and the things that came with her Deerington and new Trench memories.

After Varian, Luz had been meticulous about trying to keep such thoughts from consuming her, trying to talk to others when she could, listening to advice and meditating more than she probably had any month. But the thoughts kept coming, and no matter what Luz did, she found she was feeling more depressed by the day, even though she interacted with people and did her best to keep her smile up.

And then one day, she found it was starting to feel worse than usual, enough that she even resorted to turning to her bird form if only to escape those memories. Now they were starting to compound, and images of the cave men and the Blood Cultists and their attacks on her began to plague her nightmares. It got so bad that she woke up feeling the cuts in her skin as clearly as she had back then, and she would be breathing hard and be so anxious she stayed in bed.

She had no idea how to stop this, and moments where she started to consider self-harm surfaced, shocking her so badly she took a cold bath, shivering and in tears, wondering what would happen next.

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[onerthes]

"See, that's I think some of the most important things we can do. Just be ourselves, because we are the people who became friends and care about each other. Just be who you are, and you'll naturally be there for your friends." She grinned and motioned in from the beach. "Why don't we get something to eat though? It's a little hot out here."

[imaglyphwitch]

"That's about all we can do anyway, right?" Luz managed a smile here. "We are all still Sleepers, trying to eke a life for ourselves here. It's helped us along so far, so why wouldn't it help us here?"

They had to hope that was enough for them. It had to be, right?

"I'm with you. I'm pretty famished now myself!"

[onerthes]

"Exactly. But come, let's go get some food," she said, motioning for her to follow as she started to lead her away from the beach. She didn't actually say it, but all along, she'd been working the whole conversation up enough to get her to just follow her to somewhere more pleasant, away from the depressing sensations.

"And not even something with mushrooms!"

(OOC: Hehe, I feel like this is actually a good fade-to-black moment as they grab food. But if you want to continue, go for it!)

[imaglyphwitch]

[OOC: Yep, totally fine to end here! Hoping to do more with Vira in the next month!]