Harriet: "We're evaluating alternative team comps today to test variables in efficiency. Miss Xiao Long, Miss Schnee, you two are with me."
Yang: "But..."
Harriet: "Miss Belladonna will still be here when you get back. Besides, maybe you’ll develop more efficient techniques to push your combat skills beyond what you thought yourself capable of.”
Later...
Yang: “...anyway, I’ve been thinking about cutting my hair because Blake cut hers and she looks really good, like, really good, I mean, her haircut looks really good, but I really like my hair and I think I’d need to get new boots, I don’t know if you noticed but Blake has those really tall boots, which contrast so nicely with her hair, which is so short now, and I miss the way that it ripples in the wind but I think it frames her face nicely, also it’s probably safer in combat, you know I’ve worried that she might catch Gambol Shroud in her hair sometime but then I remember that she’s super-skilled and very clever, I mean, when I first met her I thought she was just this quiet nerd but then she killed an Ursa by stabbing it in the back and I was like ‘Wow I want that girl to be my partner’ and then I remembered that hey, the first person I make eye contact with is my partner, and then she gave me that smile, you know, the one where she narrows her eyes and tilts her head and just turns her lip up a little, that smirk, and I realized that she hadn’t been taken already, so I was like, “Okay, yeah, I can work with this”, and I played it all cool like “I coulda taken ‘im”, but looking back that was really dumb, not because I couldn’t have taken him, but because I was being cool around Blake, and, well, you just can’t get cooler than Blake, because she doesn’t talk unless she has something to say, which is something I really admire, because sometimes I just keep talking and rambling and I think it annoys people, but when Blake talks you just can’t be annoyed because she’s got that silky tone, and sometimes she puts on that accent when she’s annoyed but doesn’t want you to know that you’re annoying her, and I don’t know if she even notices that she does that but I haven’t really found a time to ask her about it, I think I’ll ask her about that the next time I see her, wow, it’s been half an hour already, do you think she’s made it to her mission yet, I hope she’s doing okay, I know she can take care of herself and she’s got Ruby with her so it’s not like I’m worried about her safety, but what if she’s bored or Ruby annoys her, what if Penny says something brash and open and offends her, I mean, she did just figure out that Blake was a Faunus right away, and I’m still surprised that I didn’t figure it out because I thought it was just a cute bow she was wearing, and you know what, I think she could really pull a bow off again today, just because she’s not ashamed of who she is doesn’t mean she can’t rock a new look, wow, I can’t believe she used to hide the truth, she’s really come so far, I mean, can you believe someone grew so much in such a short time? Well, yeah, it’s been a few years, and look at me and how far I’ve come--do you think she likes this arm color? I mean, I love it, and she told me it looks nice, but what if it was a little more black and a little less yellow, do you think that would be better, has Blake talked to you about anything, has she mentioned my arm, do you think she’d like it if I changed it? Or what about my hair, do you think I should cut my hair, or would that just be weird because I’m copying her, but really, I’m inspired because that haircut looks really good...”
