[ A sob lodges in Ruby's throat when Yang answers, and she has to immediately draw herself back to look at her sister with wide-eyed dismay. That's not what happened. Maybe she didn't know, just like Penny didn't know what had happened to her, but...no.
That doesn't explain the arm.
All at once, everything feels precipitously off-balance, and Ruby has to work her jaw for a moment to get the words out. ]
B-but - Adam Taurus, he - [ She swallows thickly. ] It wasn't just your arm -
[ She can't get out anything else, and the floor turns to ice beneath her. The memory flashes across her mind, unwelcome and cold and harsh, and since she's thinking of Yang, it's shared with her, unintentionally. Ruby looks down on her broken team outside of Beacon, Blake stammering out apologies as she holds onto Yang's hand. But Yang isn't missing her arm. Instead, there's a clear wound over her chest, crimson and red like roses, and she gives off no signs of life.
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Date: 2017-08-23 05:26 am (UTC)That doesn't explain the arm.
All at once, everything feels precipitously off-balance, and Ruby has to work her jaw for a moment to get the words out. ]
B-but - Adam Taurus, he - [ She swallows thickly. ] It wasn't just your arm -
[ She can't get out anything else, and the floor turns to ice beneath her. The memory flashes across her mind, unwelcome and cold and harsh, and since she's thinking of Yang, it's shared with her, unintentionally. Ruby looks down on her broken team outside of Beacon, Blake stammering out apologies as she holds onto Yang's hand. But Yang isn't missing her arm. Instead, there's a clear wound over her chest, crimson and red like roses, and she gives off no signs of life.
Ruby is screaming. ]