There are distractions here, yes! Some of them are actually really good, fun things! I genuinely have a good time! But yeah, they don't go away. Family never leave your mind.

[Luz sighed]. It is hard, in many ways. Of course I want to see my mother again, she's my family and I love her so much. But...I made friends in the Boiling Isles, I learned magic, I have a girlfriend who's so awesome I want to shout about it from the hills! But how exactly do you tell that to your mom if the first thing she thinks is that you wanted to run away from HER? I'm...all she has after Papa died.

[She lowered her head here, doing her best to hold back her tears].