“Okay, rat thing- YOU’RE gonna help me test my stealth ability!” The young witch announced enthusiastically to the aforementioned ‘rat thing’, the furry pest barely acknowledging her presence as it feasted on a slice of crab apple she’d tossed over to it. Thankfully, it didn’t need to be interested to help- just as long as it’d run if it caught her approaching, which she knew it would.
And so, with her unwilling participant readied as they could be, she withdrew a glyph-inscribed note; one hand clapped flat against it’s surface and, in an instant, she’d disappeared.
The wild animal she was planning to bother barely looked up at the sound, scanning about for a moment wondering where she’d gone before just returning to it’s meal. Perfect! Now all she had to do was be quiet. Carefully, one foot lifted off the ground, preparing to make it’s first slow step forwards…
… when the rat thing’s ears suddenly perk up, and it almost instantly scampers away with it’s meal in tow.
Something that, if given even a moment to process, would’ve undoubtedly made Luz let go of her breath just to frustratingly whine… but no such moment is given, as her own ears pick up a sound soon after the pest’s did, feeling it rapidly draw closer. By the time she’d turned her head to face it, it was already in clear sight- something crashing down from the sky and hitting every tree in it’s way. Coming straight towards her.
One would think she’d do better under pressure, but in that instant she forgets how to do anything; legs remained locked in place, eyes started unblinking, and the breath remained tight in her lungs as the child has her entire life flash inside her mind.
Thankfully for her, while she’s busy regretting every stupid choice she’s ever made, the thing… the ship… is slowed down enough by the trees between her and it that, just as it’s closing in, it skids to a stop just in front of her. The accompanying gust of wind and dust in her face not enough to completely knock her from her stupor, but enough to make her blink.
Coming back into spatial awareness just as something- no, someone, hops out from the ship to examine the damage… not even acknowledging her presence. Though there’s some initial confusion, realization taking far longer than it should, eventually Luz remembers- oh right, she needs to breath.
Hence the sudden, loud exhale that’d ring from behind the little alien, the human girl appearing as the invisibility spell finally breaks.
“Ma… huff… madre mía. You don’t see that everyday.”
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