"Ooh, can you believe it?" she trilled. "We're going to Vale!"

"Well yeah," Yeong answered, which was rather challenging considering Daisy had him in the tightest bear hug yet. At least on this trip. "Beacon's there. So we have to go to Vale."

Daisy took a step back, her light blue eyes shining. "We didn't have to go to Beacon. It would have been much easier for us to go to Shade. And cheaper," she added, as though an afterthought.

Yeong winced. Their parents were already stretched to the limit. Sending their twin children to combat school had depleted their already low funds. Both parents had had to work extra hours to be able to afford it. Not that River Point Academy, the primary combat school in Vacuo, hadn't helped out. It's just that they had two children who needed training, two children who needed weapons materials, two children who needed their time whenever they had competitions. Not to mention two children's worth of tuition and room and board.

Yeong had a feeling that their parents would rather they had chosen any other career. Not that they'd had much of a choice. Daisy had a powerful aura. One day while meditating as a child, she'd unlocked it by accident. Yeong had no idea how she did this. All he knew was that, connected as they were, when Daisy's aura was unlocked, so was his.

After she discovered she couldn't be hurt, there was really no other option for Daisy. She wanted to be a fighter, and so she would be. Neither really did anything without the other, so child-Yeong had also wanted to be a fighter. And together, they were good at it too. Both could handle weapons aura, dust, and their own strength quite well. What choice did their parents have? Deprive their gifted children the right to become whatever they wanted?

So both parents had gotten second jobs and worked until they were dead on their feet to be able to afford the rates to get their kids through school.

"Mom and dad want us to see Remnant," he reminded himself more than his sister. "Going to Beacon was their idea."

That much was true. Their parents had suggested Beacon over Shade, knowing it would be more expensive to send them abroad than it would be keeping them closer to home. However, Beacon had a slightly better reputation, and their parents were right about seeing the world. Yeong privately thought that their parents really wanted them to have chances mom and dad never would. Going abroad, becoming huntsmen…these were things neither mom nor dad were capable of doing.

"What do you think it's going to be like at Beacon?" Daisy interrupted his train of thought. "Will it be colder there do you think? Will there be a lot of trees?"

Daisy's boundless energy could either be really annoying, or really enlightening, depending on Yeong's mood. Today, it was annoying. "I don't actually know, sister," he said firmly, knowing she would catch the hint. "I've never actually been there."

Daisy smiled brightly at him before looking out the window again. She was no less excited, he guessed, but simply didn't want to bother him. Yeong took a deep breath. There was no need to be a grump to his sister. He felt a little guilty for brushing her down like that, but then again, she was used to it.

This was one of the many glaring differences between the two of them. They were always on the same page, yet their moods never seemed to line up. Yeong would describe Daisy as having the emotional maturity of a small child while Yeong…he was always on top of his emotions. Yet at the same time, his sister had her surprisingly wise moments, but only whenever Yeong couldn't handle himself anymore. They were exactly alike, yet polar opposites. Even their fighting styles, which complimented each other in every way, were different. Daisy was the aggressor, the forerunner, the attack, while Yeong was the defense, the guard. He was the eyes while she was the punch.

Even their physical appearances…they were mirror twins. Identical, yet they looked different. Sure, they had the same blonde hair, blue eyes, and even the same step…yet they were inverted to one another. Yeong was left-handed while Daisy was right-handed. Why, even Daisy's heart was on the wrong side. It was a rare trait that doctors, flown all the way from Atlas, had finally figured out was genetic. Nothing to really worry about, they'd said. It was in her genes.

And now here they were, Daisy excited about seeing a whole new world while Yeong silently panicked from being so far from home. How could they be so alike, and yet so different?