she was going but in the haze of her panic all she could think to do was run.

Yang saw her. Yang knew what she did, what she became. The world she loved so much was crashing down around her now that her sister knew. For as long as no one knew what she was doing, Ruby could pretend. She could pretend that all this was not happening, that it was all in her head and that she was just a normal girl who did not have uncontrollable urges to harm.

Through the darkness she ran, somewhere, anywhere that Yang could not see her. Ruby could not let her big sister see her like this, like the monster she had become. The energy in her legs left her too soon,the endurance granted by her resemblance was fading along with her speed. Ruby's weakened legs finally giving out, she fell to her hands and knees on the cold brick. Looking up, the fractured moon barely visible through the ominous dark cloud cover, Ruby closed her eyes, her thoughts drifted to her lost mother.

Once her mom was a hero, protecting those who could not protect themselves. Ruby wished to honor her mother, the wonderful woman she lost to soon. Yang and her father always assumed Ruby barely remembered her mom, but they were wrong. Ruby remembered so much. Her loving smile, her laugh, the stories she read to her before tucking her in at night, Ruby remembered it all.

What if her mother could see her now? What would she