Worship
Luz Noceda loved her titan powers and all they entailed. Sure learning a new glyph language (Her own glyph language! Was a bit annoying but it was hers. Her magic, her spells, her glyphs. It was everything she wanted and more. Was the new form being permanent a little difficult? Yeah, but that annoyance didn’t last. The people of Gravesfield wound up being perfectly cool about it all. What Luz didn’t like as much was the worshipers.
Being a key religious figure? Eh, she could get used to that. Being their god? She’d rather not. Luckily for her, EDa and the rest of her isles family were able to quickly nip that in the bud. It came with the added benefit of finding out that apparently no one believed amity when she said Luz wasn’t a goddess, prime teasing material. It was less fun when Amity turned it on Luz, then, it became fun again in a less appropriate way.
With her peace restored on the Boiling Isles Luz was quick to help out where she could. Whether it was signing off as a witness and editor to Lilith’s new history book or helping with public events Luz loved helping to rebuild the isles. She became a regular face in town, not a goddess but the daughter of their god. It helped that technically that was just true.
“Look, all I’m saying is your glyphs work here even while you're on the isles.” Masha said, leaning on the lockers next to Luz’s. “So what’s the big deal if I etch lightning into my phone case?”
“I’m not teaching you to etch glyphs until I know you can actually use them, Masha.” Masha grinned and tapped a light glyph they’d drawn. Luz gave them a flat look. “Oh wow, the easiest glyph to not screw up, that’ll totally convince me to let you etch the hardest one.”
“Alright, fair.” Masha said. As they turned to walk away both their phones pinged, a new post on the Gravesfield subreddit probably. Luz pulled her phone out to glance down at it. Lenny posted, the caption just read ‘LoL’ the photo was what was actually interesting.
“Just got my sigil! So excited for the future!” it said, a facebook post. Under it was an image of a tattoo, an incomplete circle with a crooked Z pattern. Two lines turned the lines of the Z, upper left and lower right, into triangles; a helix ran perpendicular to the lines forming the triangle to connect them.
“Huh.” Luz said. Some new trend. The symbol was familiar though. “Oh my batteries almost dead.”
A series of glyphs flared to life around her hand, the buzz of electricity filling the air as she used one of her glyphs to recharge it. Masha glanced at the glyphs then back at their phone. Luz’s eyes widened, the post. That wasn’t a sigil, it was a glyph, her glyph, Lightning.
“Oh nuts.” She groaned, she looked up to see Masha grinning at her. “No.”
“Aw but Luz-”
“Ah, no. I’ll tell Vee.” Masha’s grin only widened. “I’ll tell Amity.”
“Tell me what?” Amity said, appearing next to them. Masha seemed unwilling to speak and Luz decided to let it slide. “Okay, well Luz did you see the-”
“Yeah. I saw it.” Luz groaned. She banged her head as lightly as she could on her locker. Of course this happened. They knew natural portals opened up, they knew that stuff sometimes just wound up in the other dimensions. Stuff just winding up in other dimensions was why they knew of each other at all! It was why the original portal gates had been made. She had just really hoped nothing about her would leak over.
“Sucks to be you I guess.” Masha said, Luz glared at them again. But hey, not like you really need to worry about them right?”
There was that at least. These people were on the other side of the country at the worst. She could live her entire life without ever encountering these people. Luz sighed and looked back at the others.
“I guess your right.” She said, “Doesn’t mean I like it.”
“Oh no, worship.” Lenny said as he came over. “I get it though, where’s Vee?”
“Right here.” The basilisk said as she opened her own locker. “Tired, I stayed up all night on that history project.
Apparently some human cult knows about Luz.” Masha said. Vee blinked at them, glanced at her sister and then her eyes widened.
“Oh no.” She said itching heer sisters' own feelings on the matter. “How could they?”
“One of Lilith’s books probably fell through a portal.” Amity said. It was the only explanation that made any sense to them. Luz really hoped to never encounter these people. A hope that was dashed two years later when she was seventeen.
“Oh no way.” She heard from behind her. She paused and turned her head. She’d gotten a job at the historical society and was in the middle of stocking the gift shop. “I can’t believe it, I thought he was crazy. You're real.”
“Uh… yeah?” Luz said, staring at the woman. Of course one of those people manages to wind up in Gravesfield. She’d worn a concealment stone everywhere except this city, of course. “We’re having a sale on our ‘Wittiebane: A true tale of brotherly betrayal’ books?”
“I… wow.” The woman said. Luz would have started sweating due to nerves but she didn’t really have that ability anymore. Her natural magic made keeping cool easy enough. “My brother joined this cult, they’ve got a whole mural and tapestry about you.”
“Of course they do.” She muttered, the woman blinked at her. “Look I’m not some god or anything.”
“Well obviously.” the woman scoffed. “Why would a god be stocking shelves?”
“Fair point.” Luz said. “Anyway, if you don’t need help I’m going back to work. Please don’t tell anyone I’m real or where I work.”
“I… okay yeah I guess I can do that.” The woman nodded and grabbed one of the books Luz had mentioned. “Uh, these two guys are in their holy book you know?”
“Fuck.” Luz sighed, leaning her horns over the shelf. “Of course they are. Luz come on, the book was about the history of Emperor Ass’s rule.”
“So, I probably shouldn’t buy this.” The woman said. Luz sighed again and looked back at her.
“No, do. They’ll get one at some point anyway.” Luz said. “I was hoping to just never deal with this.”
“That’s a little naive.”
“I was moving to another dimension next year.” Luz shrugged. “Figured I wouldn’t be risking much on day trips.”
“Uh, sorry?” the woman said. Luz waved her off.
“Don’t worry about it.” Luz looked up and spoke a little louder. “I’m going for break! Need to call Eda.”
Luz stepped into the backroom and pulled out her scroll. The door they’d made let her have signal on both her scroll and phone no matter which dimension she was in. She had to at least let everyone know that her cult may know where she was now. With all the messages sent she leaned back and sighed.
“Damn cults.”