"Ghost mother? You mean La Llorna, the one I kept hearing about?"

She'd heard the legend of course, but she had not expected to see something like that here, especially when this place was supposed to be like America.

Luz's lips were trembling because no, NO, that couldn't be it, Hunter had to be OK. He couldn't die here, couldn't finally succumb to that stupid Emperor's hopes that Hunter would die and he could create a "new" one.

"Yes, he's important, a friend! At least, he is to me. So they all just...die?"