"That's what you think, huh? Sillyhead."

All things considered I think Yue should get a lot of credit for her restraint. 'Cause there's so much she could be saying right now, all of it very mean and very true. She [i]could[/i] call Qiu a jerk to her face and yell at her for wrecking the world over this dumb childish desire to... iono what, exactly. Get spankies? But, like, earn them or something? I am but a humble cutiefox and cannot be expected to appreciate the complex desires of the two-legged. 

Anywhich. She could be screaming about how much it hurt to have to go through all of the nonsense that she has, not that the adventure wasn't fun and fulfilling and stuff, but what was the point of the prophecy and the cookies and the pipe organ and the stupid rotten oh-come-on-are-you-kidding-me-with-this helicopter (something she [i]still[/i] has little nightmares about, by the way!) if you weren't asking Yue to step up and try to be your rival? Do you honestly think she would have tried half as hard to improve if she didn't think you were expecting her to? Dummy! Just look at how bad she is at the rest of her hobbies! She would have been thrilled to never ascend beyond the level of that first duel with Tianic. 

But she pushed herself until she was good enough to hang in the cold air with Princess Chen for [i]hours[/i]. She pushed herself until she had an in on Rose from the River, and she hasn't stopped pushing herself since. She fought all the way through an entire city under siege just now and yes that was fun, of course it was fun, it was the most fun thing she's ever done! But she did it for [i]you[/i], you stupid jerkface! Do you have any idea how much it hurts to get here and find out you gave up on her before she even had a chance to try paying you back?

Yue doesn't bring any of that up, though. She doesn't even frown. Instead she calmly butters a slice of banana bread and watches with a smile as the warmth melts all that tasty, delicious, cutie-forbidden spread into every little nook. She takes a pair of big, sloppy bites and mmphs appreciatively. 

"Dhey mhhk dhish whrr y'r frm? Sh'good. Brdsh'... mmf, bread's usually harder in my village. You have to dip it in soup or coffee or whatever first. We don't have a lot of... well. Anyway. This is nice, thank you."

She takes a smaller, maybe slightly more polite bite this time and chews by way of contem... deep thinkies. Far away, the battle rages on, and from here it's possible to look at it and not think of the people involved. Until you think about it like that, and then suddenly it's not again. But mostly it's a surge of colors and flashes of movement, and you'd be forgiven for not knowing who was winning or which ants you were supposed to root for. 

"Shame about your career, though. I guess it's hard being at the top, I've really never thought about it before. When I met you I thought you were trying to be a villain. Now you're trying to be a hero? I guess if what you really want is some kind of... Iono, ultimate rival? Then a Super Princess Yin who's conquered the whole world'd be pretty good at that. But she's gonna make a lot of people very sad and very scared before she gets there. And after. You can eat all of those, by the way, they're for you."

Yue sets the tupperware with the other slice of banana bread to one side and lies down on the ground to stare up at the sky for a while. She crossed her hands behind her head and then, on sudden inspiration, sits up again to fish a stick of pocky out of her bag and holds it in her mouth like a reed before she lies back down again, arms crossed just like before.

"Anyway it's impossible. Like, I don't mean to brag but... Oh! Um. I-I'm not saying I would stop her! She and I are... I mean, my training's not really, well. It would. Be hard. For me. That's why I'm over here. Part of why, I mean. But Chen is down there. Rose is down there. And either one of them's more than enough to knock Princess Yin on her beautiful little butt and stop her conquest right here. Even if she managed to get every sunshard, my Hyra would just steal 'em back. And if you think they're not up to it, then... you just don't understand anything, I guess."

She's a cattish wolfish foxy sort of smile on her face now, does Yue. She turns her head to shine that sphinx-riddle grin right at Qiu, delighted to for once in her life be ahead of the question in the same place as someone so much smarter and more worldly than her. She's practically... no, scratch that, she [i]is[/i] glowing with pleasure right now. A combination of pleasure and her pretty new music box, which her beautiful assistant has very helpfully nosed over to her so she could have something nice to savor this moment by.

She's got music, lights, a brand new phone to show off, and a sword glittering on her back in a weirdly comfortable sort of way. She's with the person who should be the most dangerous opponent in the world, but right now she's more comfortable than she's ever been in her entire life. Maybe she [i]was[/i] made for this sort of thing, after all?

No. She wasn't made for anything. My Yue earned her spot fair and square, that's what makes this so nice. 

"Are you [i]sure[/i] this is what you want? 'Cause honestly it more sounds like you just wanna know what it's like to get your butt kicked. And if that's all you're after, then goshies, you should've just challenged me. I'd've happily smashed you, y'know. Lil' late now though, I think. I mean, look at you. You're right on the edge of getting everything you said you wanted, and you look like you need a hug more than anything. You're...

I don't want to be a bully. So I won't tell you what I think. Except that, as you are, you're not. Uh. How do they say it in the stories again? Oh, right. 'You're not worthy of my blade' erm. Qiu. Princess. Your Highmiss. But~"

Yue sits up with a smile, and reaches for the other slice of banana bread. She's even saved some butter, like a good, good girl. 

"If you can find the girl who baked this, though? I'll dance with her all day. If. Erm. If she wanted to. If you wanted to."