#USUALLY that secret is buried so deep she wouldn't even divulge it if she was loopy after wisdom tooth surgery

[crimeronan]

continuing to think about princess AU luz encountering a sick/dying animal. bc i know that camila would come the Second that luz called her, but in the meantime luz is by herself, which means she's with hunter. and hunter is not NEARLY as emotionally adept as camila is.

hunter being someone who's hypervigilant and constantly strung out, seeing luz spiral and being like. okay okay okay i gotta fix this. i have to calm her down and get her to relax.

completely fair! ESPECIALLY if the incident is happening outdoors or in a public part of the castle.

however. the way he chooses to address this is with a kind of bewildered, "luz, it's okay. it's okay. it's just an animal, animals die sometimes, it's Okay"

he does not know that this is like. the literal worst thing he could Possibly say. he does not know why luz is reacting this badly and is like "well, she's a kind person who has a lot of feelings. it's probably not deeper than that"

anyway. camila getting there just in time to hear luz shouting, "what if it was YOU, what if it was YOU that was hurt, you would WANT someone to help, you would want someone to take CARE of you"

and then she just kinda. collapses. bc she's crying too hard to stand up straight.

while hunter is like. well. i see i just rolled a nat 1 on persuasion. great to see you camila! sorry we keep meeting like this. uh.

.....please help.