Vol. 2 Ch. 13 Questions And Concerns

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3rd Person POV

Blake was sitting at one of the library tables with a holographic screen in front of her. She was obviously more sleep-deprived than ever, barely focusing on what she's seeing... until a small, bright red light appeared on the screen. Moving up and down, Blake's eyes followed it down to her hand, then disappeared entirely. She looked behind herself, obviously irritated, but no one walking among the tables was her culprit.

Turning back to the computer, she started typing on the beeping keyboard before the laser dot appeared again on her hand briefly, prompting her to look around again and still find no one. The red point showed up on the screen, moving around in circles until Blake scowled and pounded her fists on the table. She stood up from her chair and found the light on the floor, following it blindly through shelves of books until both the dot and its pursuer turned the corner, only for Blake to bump, shocked and shaken out of her more "animal" instincts, into a familiar face. Waving with her left hand as her right held the laser pointer, Yang spoke in a sing-song voice and said, "He-lloooo!" Somewhat confused, Blake said, "What are you...?" Yang grabbed Blake's arm and said, "We need to talk." And with that, amid Blake's single cry of surprise, Yang whisked her partner out of the library and into an empty classroom nearby.

As Yang sat cross-legged on the central desk of the empty classroom, Blake spoke first and said, "Yang, if you're going to tell me to stop, you may as well save your breath." As orange light shined across her calm features, Yang replied and said, "I don't want you to stop; I want you to slow down." Continuing to pace with arms crossed, Blake was still irritated as she said, "I don't have the luxury to slow down." Yang replied and said, "It's not a luxury; it's a necessity." Blake responded and said, "The 'necessity' is stopping Torchwick." Yang replied and said, "And we're going to. But first you have to sit down and listen to what I have to say." She patted the part of the desk across from her. Blake looked away for a moment until she relented and draped her legs over the desk's edge and said, "Fine."

Yang took a deep breath and began as she said, "Ruby and I grew up in Patch, an island off the coast of Vale. Our parents were Huntsmen. Our dad taught at Signal, and our mom took on missions around the kingdom. Her name was Summer Rose, and she was, like... Super-Mom: Baker of cookies and slayer of giant monsters. And then... one day she left for a mission and never came back." Yang looked down as she said this, and Blake looked sorry for her. Then Yang continued and said, "It was tough. Ruby was really torn up, but... I think she was still too young to really get what was going on, y'know? And my dad just kind of... shut down. It wasn't long before I learned why. Summer wasn't the first love he lost; she was the second. The first... was my mom." Blake looked amazed at this information as Yang kept talking, "He wouldn't tell me everything, but I learned that the two of them had been on a team together with Summer and Qrow, and that she'd left me with him right after I was born. No one had seen her since."

Blake spoke up and said, "Why did she leave you?" Yang sighed, then turned to the chalkboard as she said, "That question... Why?" She got off the desk and walked to the chalkboard, picking up a piece of chalk as she continued and said, "I didn't know an answer, but I was determined to find out. It was all I thought about. I would ask anyone I could about what they knew about her." As the reminiscent blonde started drawing on the board, the scene shifts to a flat-painted flashback of a young Yang, with orange bows holding her brunette pigtails, looking at the photo found in a smashed picture frame. Yang continued to narrate her story as she said, "Then, one day, I found something. What I thought was a clue that could lead me to answers, or maybe even my mother." The scene changes to show Yang walking down a long winding path through the towering trees shedding their leaves with a little creaking wagon pulled right behind her, a little sister in a crimson hood sleeping soundly inside.

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