"Oh goshies, um, I really don't think I ought to... I mean, I'm completely useless, right? T-to the plan, I mean. You guys are amazing, sure, what dragon or princess or princess-dragon or dragon-princess et cetera wouldn't want to capture [i]you?[/i] Y'know? But I'm just... me, s-so I don't see how I'd be any use. I-I should just... supervise? O-or uh, maybe I'll just watch. F-from over there. And I'll catch up later, some other way. Yeah."

Look, before you judge her too harshly please remember that nobody brought Yue along for her acting skills. So fine, she's not fooling anybody. Ok? Glad we've established that. She's not hiding the blush on her face, or the way her head keeps dipping the more she tries to talk herself free of this. 

For that matter, she can't hide the long and meaningful glances she keeps throwing Hyra's way. What's she looking for from her, do you think? A nod? A shake of the head? A piercing stare and a smirk? To be told she'll be safe? To be promised it's ok to want this? To hear from somebody who should know that, yes, standing up to two different princesses and then crashing a car actually does qualify her as a full adventuress? Oooooh, perhaps... a kiss? 

Mm, sorry Yue, but this isn't that part of the story yet. You've tamed a ghost and cleaned a shrine, you've been chased by demons and found a girl who makes your heart go pitter patter thumpa thump, you've learned how to hold a sword and someday you might even swing a real one! You've done probably a dozen incredible things since leaving home, but everybody knows you don't get to kiss the girl and get carried home in her arms until you are, really for realsies and everyone says so, a hero. And you're just not there. Not yet. 

So what she gets instead is shoved forward into the waiting arms of a giggling Cyanis, while Kat is left to gleefully headbutt at her legs until she trips and falls and is totally caught and helpless. She yeeps and yeeks and yikeses with all the proper protest required of a maiden in fine standing. She wiggles like any true hero-in-training should when in the clutches of a villainous fox, who is only very slightly ruining everything by gleefully giggling like she's just heard the world's funniest joke instead of "Ohohohoh"ing into the back of her hand the way you'd expect a really high-class kidnapper to. 

But in [i]her[/i] defense, have you seen Yue? Adorable. Especially while she's wiggling. And in Cyanis' double defense, she is prepared even before her cue with ropes so soft they border on cuddly and a clean strip of cloth to give the suggestion of a gag without actually hindering her ability to speak up if she needs anything. Say what you will, but she's a fox. And foxes grant wishes.

"J-j-just..." she squeaks, "I guess it won't hurt to try, so, um. Uh. Pl-please don't... make my costume too embarrassing?"