"I wasn't LOOKING for attention! It just happened that every time I was spirited, people didn't like it. How was I supposed to know the spiders would get loose, or that my inside out eyelid thing was such a big deal? And it wasn't my fault the snake went and bit the princ-ok, so that maybe WAS my fault, but that didn't mean they should send me away to boring camp to make me...normal!"

Luz had gone from relatively feeling spirited to a little angry now, and she realized that came out by accident.

"I mean...I didn't want to BE 'better,' whatever that meant. Not by their standards. If you were in my world, you'd have been strange to them too. There are other ways to be 'better' that doesn't mean they take away your individuality."