"Huh. I don't know if I remember that one, or if I'm just remembering it different," Luz mused. "I might have been under some influence at the time. I think I DO remember that nightmare realm though, that one was crazy."

She'd needed that teacher Eliot's help then, who was pretty strong in his own right. She ought to talk to him again.

Because Luz was slower than she would have liked, she DID get the guard's attention, and they were about to react when Luz struck first, freezing them on the spot with the ice glyph so they couldn't move forward.

"I hope Owlbert is OK," Luz murmured, extremely unaffected by what she'd just done. "Sorry I was holding you back in the fight."