Music Under the Spotlight (Lumity Band Au)

Love in the spotlight

Luz POV: 

"And with one swipe of Azura's mighty staff, a large fireball shot out towards Hecate's cage. The fireball shattered the cage's chains, freeing Azura's orange haired friend." I read aloud, one hand holding my book while the other rested on top of King's head. 

I was back in my old room, though now it was a little cleaner than before. My bed was still a sleeping bag, or a sleep cocoon as King would call it. The bag full of my things that I hadn't bothered to organized yet sat in the corner of the room. 

King laid curled up by my side, I didn't know if he was still listening to me reading or if he had dozed off. So I stopped reading for a minute, which allowed me to hear King's soft, steady breathing, telling me that he was asleep. 

A soft smile made its way on my face and I continued to read my book, this time to myself. It went silent for a little bit, with only King's breathing mixing with the soft sound of turning pages. 

From outside the door, I could hear footsteps that made the wooden boards creak, then a knock at my door. "Come in!" I called out, watching as Eda pushed open my door. 

"Hey there kiddo." She looked around my room, then sighed. "Sorry about the place still looking like this, I would've cleaned it up, but I forgot you were coming to stay." She muttered, taking a few steps into my room. 

"It's alright Eda." I smiled, setting my book down. "Organizing the room myself gives me a chance to find some cool magical items." Eda chuckled, running a hand through her silver mane. 

"I doubt you'll find anything too great in here. Most of this is just human stuff." She said, eyeing King for a moment before rolling her eyes. "Anyways, the whole reason why I came in here is because I found this. I assume it's yours." Eda held a small, thin, square looking object in her hand. 

My mentor went to give me the item, but her hand flew off in the process. The action made me jump, even though I had seen it happen multiple times before. "Weh!" King cried out of surprised, jolting up from his slumber and quickly looking around to see if there was any danger, only to find Eda's hand on the floor in front of him. 

"Whoops, sorry kid." She reached down and grabbed her hand off my bed, taking the item out of said hand and carefully handing it to me. 

"Hey it's alright, it's not like things got too out of hand." I aimed my finger guns at her and shot her a wink. Eda just sighed and hit me lightly upside the head, muttering something under her breath about how she had almost forgotten how bad my puns were. 

Eda went back over to my door, King quickly waddling after her. "Oh and you're going to that concert tonight, right?" I nodded in response. "Alright then, don't do anything you aren't supposed to, don't take any drugs, yadda yadda yadda." Eda waved her hands around, clearly not too interested in giving me rules to follow. "And I won't be home when you get back, I've gotta go out on a quest tonight."

"A quest?" I asked excitedly, slightly bouncing up and down. 

"Yep, just gotta find a few things for a potion I'm working on." She didn't give me an more details and walked out my door, King quickly following her and closing the door behind them. 

I stared at the place where they stood for a minute, then down at the item that Eda had handed me. It was a photo, and flipping it over I realized it was a photo of Amity and I.  

The photo from one of our book club meetings, Amity being towards the center of focus while I stood off towards the back. I had one hand up in the air, the other holding open a book. On my head was Azura's hat, which told me I was probably acting out one of Azura's scenes that didn't have Hecate.