Luz the Dragon Lady

Gaining Heart

Luz Noceda was sitting in her room in the owl house, and thinking. Yesterday a puppeteer demon by the name of Adagast had almost ended her story, and her mentor Eda's as well. Luz sat in her sleeping bag clutching at her brown short curls, and tried to make a plan. King, the adorable skull capped and black furred demon 'dog' was curled up in her lap snoozing peacefully, and as she looked at him Luz got an idea.

A few hours later Luz was in her usual shorts, leggings, and her favorite purple cat hoodie, and making breakfast for the house. Soon the familiar alabaster frame of her mentor Eda, still in her comfy slippers and sleep wear, came sleepily into the room. By this point Luz knew not to even try to bother her until Eda's third cup of apple blood, so she waited. Eda wasn't anybody's fool though, she could feel the kids eyes on her, and with an exasperated groan she asked, "Ok kiddo I can feel you staring... what is it?"

Luz chuckled nervously, "Well I was thinking I would go check out the library today. I saw it while we were doing deliveries yesterday, and... Eda I accept that the Isles are dangerous. If I want to survive I need to take that seriously, and the only way to do that is with knowledge and experience. You can give me a lot of both, but it's not fair to expect you to always be there to hold my hand. If I want to be the best apprentice I can be, I have to be willing to put in the work. I can't just expect things to come to me. I have to make my dreams come true with my own two hands. So what do you say? Can I go?"

Eda snorted, and ruffled Luz's hair, "If you want to spend the morning reading boring books then that's fine kiddo. I didn't need a whole speech, but I'm glad to hear you're taking this seriously now. I know you wanted this to be a 'whimsical' place, but that's just not reality. Go have fun, and later I'll give you a lesson on potions while we work on some of the orders."

"Thanks Eda. I promise, I'll make you proud," chirped Luz, as she grabbed a small satchel of books that needed to be returned, and rushed out of the Owl House. Luz was careful as she made her way to Bonesborough, and after returning Eda's books she started to explore. Luz started with some history, and when she got bored by that she moved on to one of her favorite subjects from back home... beasts, demons, and creatures. Thanks to her obsessive love of all things odd or strange she had a good foundation to start from, but learning about the real creatures still made her feel giddy. Slitherbeasts, Quilboar, Razorbeaks, Kisune, satyrs, and then one of her favorites... Dragons. If anything came close to her love of Witches it was dragons, and other kinds of wyrms. To Luz's delight she found out that Couatl, Wyverns, and Drakes were all very real, but true dragon's had gone extinct a long time ago like Basilisks.

Still Luz loved every moment of her studies. Eventually though, Luz was getting hungry, so she started to make her way toward the entrance when she saw a green haired witch about her age about to be buried under a shifting stack of books. Thinking fast, Luz managed to steady the stack before the majority of it could fall, shielding the witch with her body from the rest, and introducing herself to the admittedly cute girl. "Hi I'm Luz Noceda. Sorry about just appearing out of nowhere, but I saw the stack about to give, and I'd hate to see such a cute girl get hurt," Luz said awkwardly, while blushing.

The girl seemed surprised, but snorted, "Amity Blight. Thanks for the save, but I had it covered. Is there something I can help you with quickly? It's kind of my lunch break, and I'd like to get to it."

Luz smiled, "Maybe. I was just taking a break from doing some research, but I got hungry. If you don't mind... maybe I could join you for lunch. I don't really know what's good around here or really know anyone my own age. It would be nice to... make a friend, maybe..." Luz groaned, "I'm sorry. I'm being weird again... I-I'll just leave you alone." Luz started shuffling away, whispering, "No es como si alguien tan guapo como tú me quisiera de todos modos. (it's not like anyone as cute as you would like me anyway.)"