Sapphire Rode - Airship ==> Sanctuary
Someone dropped Sapphire's bag next to her and she quickly felt around for the clasp and opened it. Running her fingers over the contents till she located the medical kit. Cleaning and bandaging a wound blind was not exactly an easy task but Sapphire's pride and perhaps a touch of arrogance wouldn't allow her to ask Abel or Gren for help. Asking Shiro wasn't an option even if Sapphire was open to the idea of getting assistance.
Sapphire cleaned the blood from her wound. It was not particularly deep, not deep enough to need stitches but it still bled enough to be a problem. After discarding a number of blood covered cloths Sapphire applied a cream designed to stave off infection before finally wrapping her stomach three times around. Sapphire tied it off, just slightly tighter than was comfortable to ensure that it stopped the bleeding completely.
The rest of the ride was spent in silence. It took almost ten minutes before Sapphire's sight returned and when it did looking at the scene that met her gaze Sapphire was sorry for what she'd said. No, that wasn't quite right. She was sorry for when she said it and the manner in which she confronted Shiro. A public forum was not a good place for violent outbursts. It was clear from all three of her teammate's faces that it had damaged relations with her.
Sapphire and Abel had never been friends, far from it but they'd had a kind of cold understanding of one another. Sapphire wouldn't have called it trust more a grudging acknowledgement that they need one another. Looking into his eyes now however Sapphire could see the rage held within him. In the stiff way he held himself and how he just avoided her eyes.
Gren was harder to read. Sapphire could read human body language very easily but it was harder with faunus whose anatomy didn't match the same way. Best she could guess was that he understood her outburst but condemned her methods. That was the logical conclusion she could draw with what little she knew about him.
Then there was Shiro, well he wasn't exactly difficult to read. He bore everything he was feeling in the way he held his shoulders and ears and if she was being honest he only really seemed to have four modes. Depression, he hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself as small as possible. Bubbly, he held his ears and head high and embarrassed everyone around him. Ecstasy, the inability to control his movements and the tendency to damage everything with his in reach. And finally nervousness, he'd fidget and keep very still compared to how he normally moved.
In any situation this made him a liability but the way in which Sapphire had handled him had not been productive or necessary. It would have been best to start pounding these lessons into his head during training not right break his bones with them right before a mission. As it stood Sapphire's actions had fractured the team. That didn't mean that it hadn't felt
damn good to do it. Those feelings had been brewing in Sapphire since the moment she met Shiro and letting them hit the surface for an instant was like a breath of fresh air.
Soon as they landed the team boarded a boat which delivered them to the animal shelter on the island. After they docked Shiro bolted ahead saying he would start scouting while Abel moved away from the group to check the doors to the Sanctuary. Only Gren stayed by Sapphire's side asking for her orders.
"I... I made a mistake. I was angry and I let my rage get the better of me. I'll not apologize for anything I said to Shiro but it was neither the time nor the place for such a fight. It should have waited till after the mission. Now Shiro feels he has something to prove, it will only make him more reckless and in turn more of a liability. Abel is angry which means he's not going to trust what I say and I can't imagine that you're particularly thrilled at what you saw. I'm sorry for that, for damaging our adherence to one another before the mission began but I won't take back my words to the furball."Sapphire sighed, at the best of times an apology was not exactly her forte but she needed the team together on this even if she had to sacrifice some of her pride to make it so.
"If you would follow Shiro around the building, help him scout and talk to him. Tell him it wasn't his fault or there's always next time or something to make him feel better. Report anything strange. I'll go talk to Abel. I've got to live with him for the rest of my time at Beacon I might as well play nice."Sapphire left Gren to his devices and caught up to Abel who was checking the doors.
"Found anything the mission report didn't mention?" she asked. Gren, Sapphire could talk to more easily than the others most likely because out of all of them he was the most like her. Shiro was too bubbly and Abel didn't understand the place that Sapphire acted from. Gren and Sapphire might not be friends but they understood each other better then Sapphire understood the others. The apology came easier talking to Gren but it wasn't something she could launch into with Abel. In fact she wasn't sure she could do it at all. Time would tell.
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