Lumity's Beating Heart

Culmination

Luz came to consciousness unable to move much but whether that was due to injuries sustained or just the comfort of her bed remained to be seen. Hypothetically she should've been healed by the tournament's healers but perhaps they haven't gotten to her yet. Luz's eyes fluttered open, deciding to see what was going on. She was in an unfamiliar room, pretty dirty for a hospital or medical treatment room on earth but it might've been the cleanest room she'd stayed at on the Boiling isles so far. Not yet risking moving her head she scanned the room.

"Friends!" Luz yelled loopily as her eyes focused on three figures.

A familiar exasperated sigh rung out from the owl lady's lungs but it carried a distinct tone of relief. "The medics here said they wouldn't treat a human so I had to heal you myself kiddo" she said explanatorily. Creaking her joints Eda looked satisfied on the conscious luz, "it's been a while since I looked into it but i'm pretty sure I made the necessary adjustments for the human biology."

Luz shuddered, that wasn't exactly re-assuring. Eda may be the greatest witch ever but her understanding of human culture did not inspire confidence.Luz shook doubts of her temporary adoptive mother figure for the moment. Then smiled weakly and put on a confidently optimistic face, she may have ruined her friends' Beating heart day but it would only be worse if they spent more of it worrying about her. "Hey guys" she said weakly. "How was I out there?" she ventured.

Gus visibily cringed and opened his mouth. Milliseconds before he could begin speaking willow slugged him in the shoulder and all that escaped his mouth was an "oof". In a nurturing tone WIllow began genuinely encouraging her human friends magical endeavors. Gus was well meaning but Willow didn't think his approach to criticism was particularly effective with Luz.

"I loved the shrubs" WIllow began gushing "it was such a nice touch! When did you learn that?"

Luz feigned modesty and brushed it off, "it was nothing, I just watched some of your casting - it was just an imitation nothing compared to what you cast"

Willow wasn't buying it, she knew the countless hours her friend had spent studying nature to learn it's magical runes. WIllow knew just beneath the surface Luz was dying to gush and boast about the fight. In fact she was quite surprised she hadn't begun boasting already. WIllow's cheeks did tinge the slightest at the compliment. Quickly deciding to try and move the conversation to slightly more comfortable ground she approached Luz and asked "how are you feeling".

Luz responded without moving, "fine" she said dismissively but Willow knew better she'd read a book on human sickness during one of her visits to the owl house. Willow placed her hand on Luz's forehead and exclaimed "A fever! you should get some rest and some water" She wasn't actually sure if this was a good treatment for getting "treated" by Eda but she figured taking it easy couldn't hurt the fragile human.
Luz nodded softly and murmured something about that being a good idea. As Luz went off to sleep WIllow led Eda and Gus out of the room, not many people would be keen to check up on the human not out of malice towards her though but mostly just callous disregard. Willow sighed she wished someone could look after her best friend but it was a more important mission to get the agent of chaos that was eda and the agent of harsh critical analysis that was Gus away from Luz. As they took their seats to watch the final matches of the day WIllow sent out a silent prayer that whatever powers at be would watch over Luz.

A presence awoke Luz, wariy of ill intent Luz pretended to be asleep still so she could gauge the threat if it existed. After what seemed like ages Luz heard a small catch in someone's breath she lept into action- or at least she intended to. What she wanted to do was spring from her sickbed and throw down some spells and show her presumed assilent who they were messing with. What instead happened is she sat up in bed and pointed at where the noise had come from. Darn thought Luz, as a monotone "ow" escaped her mouth. guess my body's not super healed yet.