[ It's perhaps her sisterly instinct that prompts her to take further action, or the memory of what Naoki had done after she'd dealt with Yurlungur's electricity, but as his fingers twitch, Yang draws his hand closer and wraps her other hand around it to press and knead at his palm with her thumbs.

As she does, she frowns. ]

Maybe so. But the Reasons you told me... if you'd sided with any of those, you'd be betraying yourself even more, right? Isn't friendship about accepting the people close to you, whether their opinions match up with yours or not?

[ Yang and Blake didn't see eye-to-eye all the time, but even then... hadn't her entire team searched for her for hours when she'd gone missing? Hadn't Ruby and Weiss reconciled, despite their differences? She can't understand this. ]