[This time she gets the word out a lot more clearly. However it also has the misfortune of making her anger just as clear too. It's not directed at Ruby. Not really anyway. She's mostly angry at herself because she still can't seem to get a handle on those stupid flashbacks. At least she seems to realize her mistake a moment later as she takes a deep breath to try to calm herself, speaking in extremely measured sentences.]
Just...listen to me. Wh-whatever that was. Whatever you saw. It...It didn't happen like that, Ruby. ...I-it was just a bad dream.
[It had to be. There was no other explanation for Ruby remembering something that vivid, short of a nightmare.]
[ For a moment, Ruby just stares at her sister, tears choking her throat. She looks like she's just been slapped, eyes wide with dismay. ]
Just...a bad dream? How can you say that?!
[ And now it's Ruby's turn to feel anger bubbling up inside of her, hot and uncomfortable and confusing, because this is somehow the ultimate insult. To have her dead sister show up here and then flat-out deny that she had ever died. Ruby knew what she'd seen that day at Beacon. She remembered the tears that had poured out of her. She remembers, every single day since, the cold, demanding drive for revenge that had driven her across the world to track down the White Fang.
How could Yang tell her that was all just a bad dream? ]
[If Yang were thinking clearly she might have realized what she was actually doing here. She might have stopped a moment to fully consider what Ruby must be feeling right now. But the near panic attack had spooked her, and concern over the fact that her sister seems to have memories that are clearly wrong is making her too eager to try to correct it. To try and prove that's not at all what's happened and that she's fine. Both to Ruby and herself.]
Because... Because it has to be!
[Her tone isn't angry, but she's clearly on the defensive, the accompanying gesture of her arms slightly manic as she tries to put together a reasonable argument.]
I'm not dead! I didn't... If I died then...
[She pauses in the middle of another gesture as her eye catches a reflection of gold.]
Then why would I have this??
[She holds her mechanical right arm up, thrusting it forwards slightly to bring extra attention to it.
That's it. That's gotta be the ultimate proof, right? Proof she was alive. She'd survived. Yang never thought she'd draw attention to her prosthetic quite like this, but it's the only recourse she has.]
[ Ruby stares with wide, fearful eyes as Yang lifts her arm into the air. That was indeed the strangest part about all of this, once she looked past the grief, pain, the shock at finding her sister suddenly alive again. Why would she have an arm like that? Was it some sort of price for having her life returned to her?
Ruby doesn't know. She doesn't know. She doesn't want to know. She just wants to go back to sleep and bury her head in the cold, dark world she came from. The only world she knows anymore. ]
I-I don't know!
[ She shouts, loud enough that the whole household can hear her. The floor beneath her is an absolute ice rink by now, but she still stands up, using the bed - her sister's bed - as leverage to hoist herself upward. She doesn't look up to meet Yang's eyes. Can't, really. The confusion, the fear that she saw there...
It scares her more than anything else. ]
I...I have to go.
[ Her chin tucks down, arms crossing over her heart as she heads for the door. She doesn't even know where she's going. All she knows is that she can't stay here. ]
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[This time she gets the word out a lot more clearly. However it also has the misfortune of making her anger just as clear too. It's not directed at Ruby. Not really anyway. She's mostly angry at herself because she still can't seem to get a handle on those stupid flashbacks. At least she seems to realize her mistake a moment later as she takes a deep breath to try to calm herself, speaking in extremely measured sentences.]
Just...listen to me. Wh-whatever that was. Whatever you saw. It...It didn't happen like that, Ruby. ...I-it was just a bad dream.
[It had to be. There was no other explanation for Ruby remembering something that vivid, short of a nightmare.]
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Just...a bad dream? How can you say that?!
[ And now it's Ruby's turn to feel anger bubbling up inside of her, hot and uncomfortable and confusing, because this is somehow the ultimate insult. To have her dead sister show up here and then flat-out deny that she had ever died. Ruby knew what she'd seen that day at Beacon. She remembered the tears that had poured out of her. She remembers, every single day since, the cold, demanding drive for revenge that had driven her across the world to track down the White Fang.
How could Yang tell her that was all just a bad dream? ]
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Because... Because it has to be!
[Her tone isn't angry, but she's clearly on the defensive, the accompanying gesture of her arms slightly manic as she tries to put together a reasonable argument.]
I'm not dead! I didn't... If I died then...
[She pauses in the middle of another gesture as her eye catches a reflection of gold.]
Then why would I have this??
[She holds her mechanical right arm up, thrusting it forwards slightly to bring extra attention to it.
That's it. That's gotta be the ultimate proof, right? Proof she was alive. She'd survived. Yang never thought she'd draw attention to her prosthetic quite like this, but it's the only recourse she has.]
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Ruby doesn't know. She doesn't know. She doesn't want to know. She just wants to go back to sleep and bury her head in the cold, dark world she came from. The only world she knows anymore. ]
I-I don't know!
[ She shouts, loud enough that the whole household can hear her. The floor beneath her is an absolute ice rink by now, but she still stands up, using the bed - her sister's bed - as leverage to hoist herself upward. She doesn't look up to meet Yang's eyes. Can't, really. The confusion, the fear that she saw there...
It scares her more than anything else. ]
I...I have to go.
[ Her chin tucks down, arms crossing over her heart as she heads for the door. She doesn't even know where she's going. All she knows is that she can't stay here. ]