Patiently, Sprig is waiting just outside the Flour Bakery. With his back leaning against the wall, right next to the front door, waiting for his friends to finish whatever it is they're doing in there.
To pass the time, he starts observing the people who are walking around the village right now. But with his more than short attention span, however, he can't keep it up for long. Luckily for him, just at that very moment, Anne exits the bakery, together with a warm steaming and delicious smelling piece of rye bread. Though without Luz...
"Where is Luz", he asks, "Did you trade her for the bread? Does she have to marry Maddie now?", Sprig asks increasingly energetic, causing Anne to chuckle.
"Nah, don't worry about it. She just wanted to spend a little more time with Maddie. I think they like each other", Anne tells him, to which Sprig gives her an irritated look, as if she just shattered his entire worldview. But since it's not really like that, he just shrugs his shoulders and says "Let's go then".
The two friends have almost arrived back at the Plantars' farm, when they suddenly hear someone yelling. And this yelling is getting closer and closer.
"ANNE ANNE ANNE ANNE ANNE"
They turn around and see Luz running towards them at her highest possible speed. As she gets closer, they see a huge grin on her face. Luz widens her arms for a hug as she continues to run towards them, but unfortunately doesn't slow down fast enough and throws herself, as well as the other two, to the ground. Realizing what just happened, Luz starts laughing. Anne and Sprig can't help but join in.
"What's wrong, Luz?", Sprig asks, a short time later and after sitting somewhat upright. Luz takes a deep breath.
"MaddiehasabookfromtheBoilingIslesandthereiswayback", she practically shouts far too quickly for anyone to understand even one clear word.
"What?", Anne and Sprig ask in unison. Luz backs up a bit and kneels in front of them both before taking another deep breath and trying it again.
"Maddie has a book on potions that she thinks originated in Newtopia. But it's not, it's from the Boiling Isles. That means there is or was a way to travel back and forth between Amphibia and the Isles, and I could get back", Luz shares her sheer joy and excitement. Luz is flapping her hands to express her happiness, and to calm down a bit.
"Oh my frog, I'm so happy for you Luz", Anne says before wrapping her in a quick hug, "You know, we've been planning a trip to Newtopia for a while now, in search of a way to travel between worlds. Perhaps we could find a way that I could travel back to Earth, the same way you would if you were traveling back to the Isles"
"That would be great... Um... Can I travel with you to Newtopia?", Luz asks shyly.
"Duh... Like we'd just leave you here", Anne replies with a wink.
Almost at the same time, Hop Pop and Polly happen to wander into the group, who are just about to get up from the ground again.
"Hey kids, I see your shopping was successful?", Hop Pop asks, to which the three of them nod. Anne's gaze then falls on Polly, who is lying proudly within her new bucket, which is being carried by Hop Pop.
"Fancy new bucket", she comments.
"I hope the bucket is worth the money", Hop Pop grumbles. "This thing cost me four coppers..."
"That doesn't sound like soo much", Luz remarks.
"I bet I could have knocked it down by half…", Hop Pop whines.
"Not so much whining old frog. At least I can sleep in here like a little baby now...", Polly says completely relaxed.
"But aren't you a ba...-", Luz was about to say, until being interrupted by Anne and Sprig, who attract Luz's attention with hand gestures and strong head shaking.
Tension's building up. Slowly and threateningly, Polly, who had been relaxed until just now, turns to Luz.
"I'm a what?", Polly asks tensely. She stares deeply into Luz's eyes. "I'm a what, Luz?", Polly repeats.
"Ba- ba- badass. You're a badass... ", Luz stutters.
"Very good", Polly retorts before turning back to the front and Hop Pop walks into the house with her.
"Okay, what was that about?", Luz asks as Anne and Sprig breathe a sigh of relief.
"It's happened several times before, that in situations where Polly's age is brought up, or that she's a baby, that they've escalated completely", Sprig explains. "For example, on her last birthday, there was an incident with a guest who called her a 'little girl' and she completely snapped... Uncle Grain was never the same after that..."
"Ou-kay. Will keep that in mind", Luz said hesitantly before the three of them re-entered the house as well.
Back in the house, Anne heads straight into the kitchen, where Hop Pop also happens to be.
"Did you manage to get the flies?", he asks.
"But of course. Right here", Anne replies, opening her backpack and pulling out a bulging bag full of flies. Hop Pop is delighted. "And I got everything I need for sushi as well. I love that all the ingredients I need actually exist here in Amphibia..."
While Anne is now unpacking all her own purchases in the kitchen, and Hop Pop is already starting to prepare his dish for dinner, Luz and Sprig are approaching her.
"Anne, is there anything I can help you with?", Sprig asks.
"Hmm... I don't think so, but thank you", she replies.
"Can I, or rather we, be helpful in any other way? I would like to be of some use", Luz asks, hoping that Anne has something for her to do, that she doesn't feel useless and out of place. Or has to deal with her own thoughts. Anne ponders about it for a moment.
"This may be a bold guess now, but you wouldn't happen to have any experience with party decorations, would you?", Anne asks, causing Luz' eyes to light up.
"I hosted a sleepover party in the Isles once. And I have a good twelve hundred hours in Sims 3.", Luz says proudly. Anne shifts into a strained, thoughtful pose, carefully weighing Luz's qualifications.
"You're more than qualified", she decides.
"YES!"
"If you'd like, you two can prepare the area behind the house for dinner later", Anne suggests.
"Yes. Yes, will do. Come on Sprig", Luz, who is completely excited right now, grabs Sprig and practically runs out of the house with him.
"What's a Sims?", they hear Hop Pop ask before they were out of earshot.
It takes Luz and Sprig a significant amount of time to finish decorating the place for dinner. The sun isn't far from the horizon anymore and the sky has taken on a beautiful reddish hue, and together with the scattered fleecy clouds, the whole scene looks downright magical.
While this is not an unfamiliar sight for Sprig, Luz is completely caught up in it. As if in a trance, she has been sitting on a roof overhang with Sprig for twenty minutes, gazing dreamily into the distance.
Luz and Sprig had spent hours discussing what kind of decorations would be appropriate and what furniture they should move out of the house and into the outside. Sprig was in favor of bringing the dining table from the kitchen outside, which was actually too small to fit everyone, while Luz wanted to make a long dining table out of solid wood. Sprig was in favor of small barrels to use as seating, but Luz preferred something cushioned. For lighting, Sprig wanted to use fireflies, while Luz was in favor of light glyphs. Both of them spent an eternity discussing solutions, so both could be satisfied. And on top of that, they both had a lot of fun in the process.
The solution that now finally sits behind the Plantars' house consists of a solid wooden table, as Luz originally suggested. Sprig's original counter-argument was that such a large table would be way too heavy to carry outside by hand. However, when Luz showed him that she is quite capable of effortlessly moving large and heavy objects using plant glyphs, all his resistance to Luz's idea vanished. For the seating, they agreed on Sprig's idea with the barrels, though Luz had insisted on adding some padding. Consequently, there were now five barrels around the table, for which the two of them jointly created back and seat cushions of their own out of cushions that were no longer in use. For Polly though, they got a special high chair out of the house.
At least as much as they are proud of the chairs, the two of them are equally proud when it comes to the lighting. That's because it's made up of alternating fireflies and light glyphs, each tucked into a glass ball, attached to garlands at regular intervals, and attached to wooden posts that Luz grew out of the ground herself by using plant glyphs. When they were done, they climbed up onto the roof overhang above the door at the back of the house, to look at their handiwork with both enormous pride and physical exhaustion.
"That was fun", Luz says at one point as the colorful sky begins to fade and the moon to rise.
"I think so, too. And we created something great together. Hop Pop and Anne will love it", Sprig says proudly.
"You want to go in the house and grab them for a minute? By the way, I also think we need dishes", Luz notes. Sprig nods and climbs through a window behind her that leads into his own room, and enters the house. Luz, on the other hand, continues to admire her work. It is a piece she worked on with her own hands and her own physical strength, and it is also probably the most elaborate thing she has ever created to date. Sure, Luz wasn't inexperienced with crafts, but unlike just assembling furniture with her mom, and tinkering together small models she used for her Azura reenactments, this is a whole new experience.
"Knock Knock"
A new and unfamiliar voice to Luz speaks, which catches her attention. A blonde, human girl emerges from behind the house.
'That must be Sasha', Luz thinks to herself. Sasha's blonde hair is tied in an elegant ponytail at the back of her head, with a long bang hanging down to her right side. Luz instantly notices that she is wearing a uniform, some sort of armor. The chest plate is made up of countless brown scales, arranged neatly next to and below each other. In addition, she wears a dark gray skirt held by a spiked belt worn over gray leggings. In addition, she is wearing armored boots. Strangely, she wears only one shoulder pad and also only one glove. Luz has no idea what the reason for such a thing could be. But now Luz' personal highlight: Sasha is wearing a black cape. It seems to have been damaged more than once, judging from all the patches on it. What is also immediately noticeable is Sasha's apparent nervousness, as if she is expecting an attack, an ambush or something like that at any time.
"Hi there", Luz greets her in a friendly manner. Sasha flinches briefly before her eyes meet Luz's. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you... I'm Luz, by the way", Luz introduces herself, however Sasha seems to have no interest in exchanging any pleasantries with her.
"Oh... It's you…", Sasha begins derogatory, "You're the one who crashed my party at the Tower..."
"I… I didn't mean to", Luz says, lowering her head ashamed.
"Mhm, whateveeer", Sasha says dryly, "At least you managed not to bleed all over the place. Well, apart from your outfit... Eww", she adds in disgust, when she notices the blood stains on Luz's clothes.
"Hmm, thanks, I guess...", Luz tries not to let on how hurtful that just was and quickly changes the subject, "If you're looking for Anne, she's inside still preparing dinner"
Luz points to the door underneath the overhang she's sitting on, to which Sasha heads without saying another word. Immediately Luz realizes that she and Sasha are most certainly not going to become friends. On the contrary, Sasha has a certain bully-aura, like some of the people Luz knows from Earth, as well from the Isles.
'I officially hate her… So much for her actually seeming pretty nice', Luz thinks to herself, remembering the picture Anne had shown her of Sasha a while back. Fortunately, at the exact same time, Anne comes out of the house with two large sushi plates. 'Thank you, Anne. You are a lifesaver. I really don't want to spend more time alone with Sasha as necessary', Luz thinks to herself.
Seeing Sasha, Anne throws the plates on the table unsightly and runs straight to Sasha to hug her heartily.
"SASHA!", Anne screams overjoyed.
"ANNE!", Sasha shrieks almost simultaneously.
"Your timing is absolutely perfect", Anne says excitedly, "We can eat right now if you want."
"Totally, I'm starving…", Sasha says as she sits down at an empty seat at the table and the smell of the food hits her nose, "Uhh, Sushi á la Anne. Very nice...". Anne joins her, and Luz also begins to climb back down from the roof overhang.
"You spoiled me with soo much amazing food in the tower, so I figured the least I could do is serve you my specialty.", Anne states proudly. Sasha is flattered.
"Aww, thank you Anne"
Suddenly Hop Pop bursts out of the house with his face contorted in pain.
"Get out of the way. This is hot!", he bellows, placing a large bowl full of steaming food in the middle on the table. He shakes and blows violently against his hands. Anne giggles.
"We also have something like oven gloves, HP…", she notes. He doesn't respond to that, instead he just walks back into the house and comes back out with Sprig, who brings some plates and silverware back out with him, which they all spread out on the table.
"Oh... Hello Sasha", Hop Pop only now notices that she is already sitting at the table, "I didn't realize you were already here."
"Yes, I had already seen the lights here from a distance, and I was beginning to think I was late.", Sasha smiles politely.
"Speaking of which", Anne started and turns to Luz and Sprig, "Guys, this place looks absolutely amazing"
"Thank you. That was a lot of hard work too", Sprig says proudly.
"Thank you, Anne. And well, I told you I was good. And I had a trick or two up my sleeve as well", Luz adds.
"That was soo cool how you carried that table out of the house. I had never seen anything like that", Sprig says and pride fills her. Sasha briefly eyes the massive size of the table before looking at Luz with a raised eyebrow.
"You just have to know what you're doing", she teases, raising a hand for a high five. Sprig hits her hand with his tongue. "Gross..."
Anne giggles before inviting everyone else to the table. Sasha is already sitting at one end of the table with Anne right next to her. Sprig sits down directly in the seat to Anne's left. Luz sits down across from him, Hop Pop next to her, and next to him, on the raised chair sits Polly.
Before they're all properly seated, Sasha is the first to grab a couple of sushi rolls.
"Oh. My. God... Anne, these are soo good", Sasha compliments her.
"Thank you, Sash. But you better not ask me what exactly is in there...", Anne warns her sternly and with a serious look on her face. Sasha, who has just shoved an entire roll into her mouth, suddenly froze and slowly looked up at Anne, looking somewhat frightened. In her other hand she is already holding another roll, which she is now examining very closely and in great detail. She looks at the sushi roll very critically for half a minute, until Anne suddenly starts laughing out loud.
"Oh my god, Sasha, you should have seen your face", she continues laughing while wiping away a tear of laughter, "The sushi is pretty much exactly how I would make it on Earth... Well, the seaweed might be a little thicker here, but that's about it. I was just trying to lighten the mood."
"Dammit Anne!", Sasha cries out, while inwardly she is relieved though. Anne continues to laugh, but everyone else at the table can't help but at least giggle.
'Well, Sasha has embarrassed herself now, but at least the mood is better now', Anne thought to herself at that moment. And indeed, she was right. For most of the rest of the evening, the general mood was actually somewhat lighter, even if the conversations are practically split into two camps. First of all, there are Anne and Sasha, who are genuinely having a great time. They tell each other about all their new experiences from Amphibia or even rather embarrassing stories about Anne's life from Earth, which they had failed to do in Toad Tower a few days ago. Anne had tried to include the others at the table in her conversations, which worked for Hop Pop and Polly, but rather less so for Luz and Sprig. While Sprig is still actively involved in the conversations to an absolute minimum, Luz is uncharacteristically quiet. That the reason for that is named Sasha, is not far-fetched, but the others at the table don't know anything about that yet. Fortunately, for Luz, Sasha is so far completely focused on Anne, and seems not only not to pay attention to Luz at all, but to ignore her completely.
After a while, as the food on the table gradually became scarcer, Anne got up from the table to get sushi from the house one last time. So far, she has had to do this four times. But not only Anne stood up, Luz also excused herself from the table to stretch her legs and move around a bit. And that actually wasn't even a lie or just an excuse to get away from Sasha. Luz can't remember the last time she ate so much and accordingly she now feels pretty... full.
She's about halfway around the house and barely out of sight of the others at the table when she suddenly hears metallic footsteps coming from behind her.
'Please don't be Sasha. Please don't be Sasha. Please don't be- Ugh', Luz mumbles to herself as she slowly turns around and sees Sasha now standing right in front of her. 'She seemed taller from the roof'
"Heeeey... Your name is Luz, isn't it?", Sasha asks suspiciously friendly.
"Yes...", Luz confirms cautiously.
"So, tell me, how did you end up in Amphibia?", Sasha demands to know.
"I have no idea", Luz replies. And even though that's the truth, Luz knew that wasn't an answer Sasha would be satisfied with. And as predicted, she now postures herself with her arms crossed in an aggressive pose.
"Are you serious?", she questions skeptically, "Just like that, without any warning, a floating light appears in the Tower, the ground has started to shake, you shoot out of there like a bullet, slam into a wall, ruining my party... and you're seriously trying to tell me that you have no idea how you 'accidentally' got from Earth to the very place where I was reunited with my best friend?"
"Um... I...", Luz stammers nervously to herself as Sasha steps uncomfortably closer to her and guilt begins to spread through Luz' mind.
"So? ... I'm waiting...", Sasha taps her foot impatiently on the floor and sees tears forming in Luz' eyes. She keeps pushing, "And as if it wasn't enough that you ruined the party, now you're living here in Anne's house like a dirty scrounger!"
That last part broke Luz. Now fully crying and with compulsively suppressed sobs, she runs past Sasha, back into the house and down to the basement. Before she ran into the house, she had heard Hop Pop and Sprig worriedly asking what was going on. Anne, on the other hand, had just finished the last sushi plate when Luz ran past her. With the plate, Anne walks back outside.
"What happened?", she asks with concern, while Sasha also came back to the table from the opposite side of the house.
"Maybe all this experience in this new world here is just too much for her...", Sasha says dryly.
"That was actually not the first time she cries so hard...", Anne says thoughtfully, reflecting on her first conversation with Luz, "I should talk to her"
"We'd better give her some time alone. She'll calm down and come out again eventually", Sasha says while grabbing Anne's arm before she can enter the house.
"Yeah, you're probably right", Anne agrees. Hop Pop and Sprig, on the other hand, don't seem to completely believe Sasha's explanation. Hop Pop instructs Sprig with a subtle head gesture to go check on Luz. He gets up from the table and walks into the house towards the closed basement hatch, from where he can already clearly hear Luz sobbing.
Sprig softly knocks on the hatch before slowly opening it and taking a look into the basement. Although the basement is completely dark, he can make out Luz sitting curled up right in front of the heating stove, its reddish light shining slightly on her.
"Luz, may I come in?", he asks softly. She looks up at him briefly with wet eyes and nods before burying her face in her knees again.
He slowly descends the steps and with a respectful distance between the both of them, sits down next to Luz, leaning his back against the wall. He doesn't say a word. He just sits there, with his hands folded on his lap. The only audible sounds are Luz's sobs, which she is trying to suppress, as well as occasional laughter from Anne and Sasha, which can be heard faintly through the basement ceiling.
"Sprig?", Luz begins quietly after another few minutes as her sobs gradually subside, "Is it really okay for me to be here?"
"What do you mean?", Sprig enquires sympathetically.
"Is it really okay that I'm staying here with you guys, eating your food, and taking advantage of your hospitality?", Luz asks between renewed sobs and a cracked voice. Sprig doesn't know what to say to that at first.
"Did... Did Sasha tell you that you're not welcome here?", he asks cautiously, to which Luz nods.
"She said I was a scrounger... And she's right, isn't she?"
"N-no... No, not at all. We really like having you here Luz", Sprig responds with horror, "You don't seriously believe what that Sasha said, do you?"
Luz doesn't respond, just continues to bury her face in her knees.
"Luz... Look at me... Please", Sprig pleads. Though hesitant at first, Luz eventually straightens her head and looks at Sprig with her puffy red eyes.
"Sasha's in the wrong…", Sprig says with determination, "and I think you know that.", Luz buries her face in her knees again.
"I hate her... I hate her so much...", Luz mutters in a tone Sprig has not heard her use before. Once again, a momentary silence falls, before she eventually continues.
"She's a bully. I knew that from the moment I encountered her outside the house earlier...", Luz says while now wiping away a tear from her eyes, "Back on Earth, I knew a lot of people like her. They used to make fun of me for everything they could find, be it my short hair, my own interests, my clothing style... And at the time, I just took it in."
"I think I could understand pretty well if you never wanted to go back there", Sprig says sympathetically. "So back to Earth, I mean"
"But not to dinner either", Luz adds, to which Sprig snorts in amusement. But Luz can't help smiling a little either.
"... Luz, I want you to know that you're always welcome here. Even if you and Anne may never return to your worlds, you will both be welcome here. Forever. No strings attached, no price, no guilt.", Luz is touched and leans her head against Sprig for a moment now.
"Thank you so much"
"You know, I hate it when my friends get treated so badly. And I really want to be able to do something about it...", Sprig says with now more serious tone, "But Anne for example is so, so oblivious about Sasha's true intentions and I just can't get through to her...", Luz is just quite grateful about Sprig's change of subject, "I already knew in Toad Tower that she has some bigger goal"
"She... She followed me behind the house earlier, and accused me of ruining her party... She was quite furious", Luz resumes and Sprig moves into a thoughtful pose.
"Whatever had been planned at Toad Tower hadn't worked out because of your arrival there...", he concludes.
"And now Sasha is here to carry on that plan?", Luz finishes Sprig's sentence for him.
"Exactly. I don't know who she's targeting or why, though...", An idea begins to form in Sprig's mind, "Luz, do you want to help me protect the people here from Sasha? No matter what it takes?", He continues and holds out a hand for Luz to take. She doesn't notice, though, and lunges for a hug, which he is only too happy to accept.
"I'd love to.", Luz says, already feeling a little better thanks to him, "Do you happen to have a plan already?"
"Basically, it's enough to keep an eye on Sasha for the whole time she's still here for dinner, and intervene, if necessary.", Sprig explains as the basement hatch suddenly opens with a jolt and a happy, broadly grinning Anne pokes her head down.
"Guess what? Sasha is staying over here tonight and we're having a sleepover. She won't be going back to the Toads until tomorrow", Anne announces, just before letting the hatch slam shut as well. Luz and Sprig roll their eyes in annoyance.
"Okay, new plan: we take turns watching Sasha until she leaves tomorrow. I would suggest... We take turns every three hours and I would also cover the first shift", Sprig suggests.
"Okay, good plan", Luz agrees decisively.
"That way we can sleep when it's not our shift, and additionally we won't be quite as overtired tomorrow...", Sprig added.
"Alright", Luz and Sprig hug again, and Luz wipes a last tear from her face, "Let's do this."
Both of them immediately jumped into action. Translated, that means something like Sprig walking out of the basement and observing the two girls from the stairs as inconspicuously as possible for the next three hours, and Luz preparing a few glyphs just in case. Anne had noticed Sprig watching them after a short while and asked if he would like to watch 'Suspicion Island' with her and Sasha in the living room. He didn't really want to be near Sasha, however he liked Anne and 'Suspicion Island', and this way he can better keep an eye on Sasha until it's Luz's turn and he can go to sleep.
The rest of the evening was pretty uneventful. Hop Pop and Polly went to sleep at some point, as did Sprig after his first shift was over.
It's been two hours so far since Luz's shift started and nothing has happened yet. She had previously prepared a deck of various glyphs in case she had to take Sasha out of action, but now she sits at the top of the basement stairs, taking advantage of the lack of sound isolation, to react as quickly as possible to any movement above her. Currently, however, Luz is rather bored. Sprig went to his own room upstairs, Polly and Hop Pop are also in their own rooms, and Anne and Sasha have not left the living room except for a brief bathroom break. Also, Luz has found out that Anne has some snoring potential, which she didn't knew about until now.
Suddenly, a loud wooden thump startles Luz. She opens the basement hatch a little bit to see what's going on. Her first glance is at the front door, which is standing wide open.
'Oh no... Although, maybe it was just a strong gust of wind that pushed it open...'
She opens the hatch a bit further to get a better look into the living room. The whole house was eerily dark so far. Only Anne's phone is lighting up. Luz sees that Anne is fast asleep.
'Wait... where's Sasha?', Luz wonders urgently, and opens the hatch entirely in order to climb out. However, as she is about to brace herself on the ledge to climb out, Luz suddenly notices a liquid at her hand.
With her other hand, she quickly activates a light glyph and she freezes in shock.
'That's blood... Whose blood is this?', horror is drawn on Luz's face as she has now climbed completely out of the basement, and illuminates the floor with the light orb. With the dim light emitted by the orb, Luz spots a trail of blood leading from Hop Pop's study out the front door.
Luz runs back to the basement, gets her staff and cloak, runs back up to the living room and wakes Anne.
"Anne... Anne! ANNE!", Luz tries to wake her up, with increasing urgency and volume.
"What's wrong?", Anne asks sleepily and slightly annoyed.
"Sasha's gone and there's a trail of blood leading out of Hop Pop's room", Anne immediately snaps her eyes open in disbelief and jerkily turns to her side to see if Sasha is still lying next to her. But she's gone. And so are her clothes.
Now panicking, she looks at Luz, and sees the light orb hovering over the open basement hatch and now spots the trail of blood with her own eyes as well. Instant tears burst from Anne's eyes as she sees the trail.
"W-w-w-what?", Anne stutters in terror. Luz reaches out a hand to help her stand up.
"Come with me", Luz asks her and together they run out of the house and follow the trail. Anne holds her hand over her mouth in shock as they pass the trail of blood.
'N-No, it can't be', Anne thinks to herself, 'Sasha would never do such a thing... Maybe... a monster attacked him. And Sasha went to save him. Yeah, that must be it'
Anne's fear continues to rise with every step the two girls take.
The darkness and thick fog make it difficult for the girls to see the blood trail clearly, though it seems to lead to the village center. As they approach, they make out a tall silhouette that seems to be walking swiftly towards somewhere, illuminated by the lamps that are spread out in the area. The tall silhouette appears to be carrying a smaller one by its collar.
"SASHA!", Luz yells with all her might, and in absolute fury. Anne's whole world collapses as she figures seems to react and stops. Completely broken, Anne collapses on the floor next to Luz, sobbing in tears.
'No no no no,' Anne whispers to herself, 'This can't be... This can't be happening'
The taller figure drops the smaller one on the sandy ground, and slowly turns around.
"Oh Luz, I was so hoping you would-", Sasha completely freezes as she sees not only Luz standing there, looking totally furious, but also Anne kneeling next to Luz, completely broken, crying hard and holding her hands over her mouth with Sasha's gaze meeting hers.
Luz's rage and fury at Sasha now no longer knows any limits, and she lunges forward for an attack.
"YOU KILLED HOP POP!"