[closed] You're in trouble now

[flaredo]

Who: Yang (flaredo), the baby sister (undaunts) & the boyfriend (masakados)
When: Just after touring CERES, ICly... still 1/26?? Maybe???
Where: Apartment de RWBY-- or RY at this point
What: Yang gets back from her CERES tour, talk and recovery time
Rating/Warning: Rated F for Fuzzy around the edges

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[ If Yang had to say whether signing up to tour the facilities was a good idea or not, she'd still say there were no regrets. Even if she still had a ton of questions (and visiting had made even more crop up), there were things she hadn't expected to learn. Fire-breathing natives, people who hadn't been happy with CERES' former CEO landing there. Earthquakes that had a different cause than anticipated. She still wonders what became of the natives, but for now...

For now, she's made it home, collapsed bonelessly on the couch, and made an unhappy grimace every time she caught sight of her hands and how they were still fuzzy around the edges. She'd asked Ruby to call Naoki over, as her own device was stupidly dead, with a promise to explain everything. Considering she's a bit scraped up, bandages around her head and ribs nice and bruised, there's quite a bit to explain.

But hey, at least she's not bleeding anymore. ]

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[masakados]

[KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK GUESS WHO GOT HERE PRETTY QUICK

At least he's knocking. No kicking down the door today, and hooray for that. Who wants property damage anyway on top of other things.]

[undaunts]

[Look, it's not like Ruby's ever happy when her sister comes home bloody and fuzzy around the edges, but she knows Yang can handle herself, and she can tell when Yang has figured out something worth...well, all of the trouble.

So she just bounces over to the door to open it up for Naoki, already on the same page as Yang here.]

Naokiiii, come in come in! I've been dying to know what's going on, but we had to wait for you!

[flaredo]

Tell him I'm fine before he starts scowling!

[ Comes the... slightly winded call from the couch, because Yang is still occasionally having trouble catching her breath. She's whole and completely conscious, though-- so Ruby's totally sound in her judgment. ]

[masakados]

I came here with my scowl prepared in advance, so it's already too late.

[Oh yeah FULL FROWN MODE probably the first time Ruby gets to see him fuss... he'll fuss more when he actually lays eyes on her. For now, he addresses Ruby as he gets out of his shoes and steps inside.]

Thanks for waiting for me.

[AND-- that is not what he would call fine, and he's especially staring at the bandage around Yang's head.]

[undaunts]

[Yeah, she just yells back--]

He's already scowling!

[And then she turns her attention back to Naoki and chatters as she leads him back there.]

She's not really fine, but she's Yang-fine, which is almost the same thing. She'll bounce back, once she stops getting herself into weird CERES-shaped trouble.

[flaredo]

[ Yang's very casually averting her eyes, PLEASE STOP FROWNING. ]

Look, it was important weird CERES-shaped trouble! And nothing's broken, I'm just kind of... iffy right now.

[ IFFY MEANS FUZZING AT THE EDGES AND BEING SHORT OF BREATH APPARENTLY. The bandages aren't important. ]

[masakados]

[CAN'T STOP FROWNING.]

You know what, I'm just gonna help out with that iffy of yours.

[He walks on over to her and reaches out to gently touch his hand to her head-- ENJOY HEALING, because his eyes are flaring into a telling blue glow.]

And you can tell us what that trouble was, yeah?

[undaunts]

[Ruby just hops up on the couch and sits there, legs swinging idly.]

Yeah, I've been dying to hear more than just the vague stuff!

[flaredo]

Here, give Naoki some room-- [ Flapping a hand at her sister, even though Yang's totally hogging more of the couch right now. She'll let Naoki do his healing thing without fuss, either, even if the fuzziness will remain. ]

And yeah, as promised... I'll tell you guys what I saw. It started when our guide threw up black stuff and totally ditched us.

[ Yang Xiao Long, expert storyteller. ]

[masakados]

[Naoki just shakes his head HE'S FINE, don't worry about him. He'll just flop to a seat on the floor next to the couch, tipping his head to look back at them once he's finished healing.]

...What a great start.

[undaunts]

[Ruby will scoot anyway, because she's a good sister. And she pats the vacated spot. SIT. SIT DOWN, NAOKI]

I did not vacate couch space so you could sit on the floor.

[anyway back to the story.]

Okay, ew, so.... you went and kept going anyway, right?

[flaredo]

Yeah, of course. [ LIKE DUH. ] We wound up in this hallway-- uh, that's-- me, Jaune, Peko, a guy named Arthur and someone named Rio. There were a bunch of doors with names like... "June-something", "August-something"... and when we went in the June one, we were inside of a jungle and a voice was talking about coming here to settle the colony.

[masakados]

[Naoki blinks up at Ruby... and then he grins, holding up his hands in a mercy gesture before moving to sit next to her.] Thanks.

[And back to paying attention...]

Like... when the CERES people first came here?

[undaunts]

[June...August...blah blah blah dates oh interesting.]

Like the jungle outside of this place? Or, well, the one they keep telling us is out there but we never see?

[flaredo]

Yeah, I guess-- that Mosley guy said before that Julius wasn't the first CERES highest-up, but it sounds like he was the first who got the colony established. And so it was like a walk-through journal, where we got to fight a monster and find out that there were fire-breathing natives who didn't really like our old buddy being there.

... We only got to see their huts, though. They weren't around.

[ She sounds disappointed. ]

[masakados]

[A walk-through journal...]

Too bad you couldn't meet 'em, Yang. [With a laugh as Naoki reclines more into the couch and folds his arms over his chest.] Was it fighting that monster that you got hurt?

[undaunts]

[Yeah, Ruby's just going to sit here and swing her legs idly and wait for the rest of the story, though she finds it hard to believe that a simple monster would be able to do this to Yang.

It takes more than that, usually, she thinks.]

[flaredo]

Yeeeeah, no, that monster was easy. [ PSHAAAAW, flapping a hand. ] It was after we split up that I got hurt, and that was just because the other room was the colony while it was still being built. And then there were earthquakes, but what was weird was that the voice said they weren't natural.

[ Huh. ]

Anyway, I knocked some debris away to try and clear a path, but then we got all fuzzy and it was hard to breathe, and when we turned back, another quake hit.

... Aaaaand I got hit in the head by that stuff from earlier.

[ Yep. ]

[masakados]

[Naoki guessed as much... a monster wouldn't be enough to take Yang down at all, not when she's used to monsters and such. He listens without saying anything as she goes on--

Oh.]

So that's how.

[He peers at her head again.]

[undaunts]

[Meanwhile, Ruby's peering at the fuzziness around her fingers.]

This is really weird, just so you know.

[You know

if you were wondering.]

[flaredo]

I'm fine, still. Just-- [ She wriggles her fingers. ] It's kinda hard to breathe sometimes.

[ SHE SAYS SO CASUALLY. ]

[masakados]

Sounds like Yang-fine again, right?

[Naoki comments to Ruby as he reaches a hand to Yang. He can still grab her hand right, fuzziness isn't going to get in the way??]

[undaunts]

Yep, 100% Yang-fine!

[Ruby just agrees to that cheerily, before she glances over at her sister.]

You'd tell us if it gets too hard to breathe, right?

[Don't....put your life in danger for real, she couldn't actually take that.]

[flaredo]

[ Yang obligingly reaches across Ruby to let Naoki grasp her hand. Well, it might not feel all there, but there's still some contact there. ]

You know I would. I don't exactly like it, either.

[masakados]

[...it's an odd sensation. Naoki's expression darkens for just a moment, worried and troubled, and he ends up gripping harder without thinking before letting his hand go lax.]

So, waiting for now? [Until she bounces back...]