A/N: For r/RWBY's WPW #178, the prompt I picked was, "Velvet also takes on some personality traits of the people she mimics...for better or worse." (I did, however, admittedly broaden that premise to include her simply taking a picture of the person being enough to trigger the same personality shift.)

Instantly, I realized that this fit really well with the premise of the previous chapter, Bad Hare Day (at the time a standalone fic which was also from an earlier WPW prompt).

For that reason, this could be considered a semi-continuation of that fic, with a different look into why Velvet was acting the way she did in Bad Hare Day. However, this was never planned and it's not necessary to read BHD first; you are missing out on literally no context if you choose to read one and not the other.

Also, some of the personalities portrayed in this fic are... a tad exaggerated. Think more RWBY CHIBI than RWBY proper.

This may be a glorified shitpost, but hopefully it's a decently fun shitpost, at least!

Exposure

"Well that was pleasant!" Velvet hummed happily as she trotted alongside her friend and leader, Coco. The pair were making their way from the airship landing drop, down the marble pathway back towards Beacon academy.

Scroll in hand, Velvet thumbed through the fresh memories she'd captured with those two Mistralian boys Coco dragged her along to meet.

"I told you," her leader teased. "That wasn't so bad, was it?"

"Wellllllll..." she mused, "it wasn't, once you came to my rescue at the cafe!"

At first, of course, Velvet was apprehensive to come along with two strangers in the party. That hesitance had only worsened when one of them began overtly flirting with her as the four sat down together at the quaint outdoor cafe Coco had led them to.

Thankfully, however, the fashionista quickly disarmed the boy's attempts towards her teammate with her own infamous charisma.

Thinking about the look on his face made Velvet giggle as she vividly replayed the scene in her head from memory.

"Oh..." Coco drawled out, doffing her sunglasses to meet the boy's eyes through her half-lidded gaze. "Neptune, was it...?"

The blue-haired boy turned his suave expression away from the now-debilitatingly flustered Velvet and towards the woman sitting just to her side. His eyes instantly locked in place as he met Coco Adel's signature smolder. With an audible gulp, his lips parted, the tube to his bubble tea still dangling loosely in their grasp.

"Y-Yes miss...!" He squeaked out, his mouth dropping the wide straw back into its beverage. It hit the bottom of the cup with a 'thud' just loud enough to briefly alert him to his own helpless captivation by the woman's stare.

"I'm afraid my Velvet here is rather shy..." she explained slowly. "She's not the flirty type, I'm sorry to say."

"O-Of course," he apologized, his head angling downward in reflex. "I'm s-"

"But," She cut him off abruptly, gripping the hollow stirring straw of her latte between her fingers and thumb. She narrowed her soft eyes at the boy and took a long, steady sip before she continued. At the end of her intake, her lips curled up, pupils briefly fluttered up to the sky and eyelids shut in an expression of unadulterated bliss.

Neptune's own eyes widened to the size of biscuits as he watched her display.

"If you think you can handle a woman who can hold her own," she purred, giving the stirrer a gentle nibble with her teeth. "... Find me on campus."

Coco grinned as she and her friend approached the door to the dorm building. "You can argue my methods, Velvet, but you can't argue my results," she winked.

Velvet giggled even more animatedly now. "I thought his whole body was going to turn as blue as his hair! He hardly said another word that entire day!"

The pair walked in silence for most of the way to their room.

Out of the corner of her eye, Coco noticed one of the two long rabbit ears twitch once. She shrugged it off.

Twice.

'Hm,' she eyed her teammate inquisitively for a moment, but ultimately payed it no more mind.

Velvet's face beamed as they strode down the corridor. She seemed to be in good spirits. That was good enough for Coco.

She was even making... eye contact with various passersby, she noticed.

Coco raised an eyebrow.

And she was... smiling?

'Huh. Maybe a little breaking the ice over coffee is all it takes to break her out of her shell.' She shrugged and set her gaze forward ahead of her.

"Ehehe~"

The strange chuckle at her side, however, quickly drew her attention back to her teammate.

"... Ladies~"

Coco froze in her tracks as she turned to see exactly what Velvet was up to.

Her friend - the quiet, timid Velvet Scarlatina - was winking, shooting finger pistols and cat-calling a group of girls passing them in the hallway. Each one seemed to wear her own mix of confusion, surprise and apprehension on her face.

"Velvet!" Another voice rang out from behind the pair.

Coco and her flirtatious, faunus friend turned around to see Blake and Yang waving and hurrying over to them.

"How are you two doing?" Blake asked with a smile.

"Me?" Velvet asked, a sly grin plastered on her face. "I'm doing great! ... now that you're here, Kitten~"

Yellow and violet eyes shot open to the width of saucers at the normally reserved Velvet's bold response. Blake's ears flexed backwards and a blush lit her face a dark red.

"Velvet!" Coco scolded, her eyebrows climbing above the frames of her shades in shock.

"D-Did you just..." Yang pointed at the rabbit and choked back a laugh. "Did you just call her 'Kitten'?!"

"Maybe I did..." Velvet admitted smugly before bouncing a suggestive eyebrow up at the blonde. "... Jealous, Hot Stuff?"

Yang's mouth hung open in the air and her own blush formed.

Blake's hands shot to her lips stifle her own laughter at her stunned partner.

"I'm sorry girls..." Coco offered in a slightly nervous voice. "Velvet... isn't herself right now."

Quickly she grabbed the girl's arm and tugged lightly, rushing her along to their room. "We'll catch up later! See you!"

"Wow, Coco... feisty today are we~?" Velvet's chuckle and smooth talk could be heard all the way down the hallway as Blake and Yang simply watched the two leave.

"... I like it~"

"No you don't, Velvet! Be quiet!"

It was a boring day.

Classes had gotten out early and the sophomore team had nothing scheduled for the rest of the daylight. Yatsuhashi took the extra time to relax in his bed while Fox lazed about on the sofa and Coco thumbed through the latest issue of her fourth favorite fashion magazine.

"Hey, either of you guys seen Velvet today?" Coco turned to ask as she folded a corner of the magazine page she was reading and got up from her desk.

Fox, as if on a spring, whipped his head around to the direction of her voice. "What do you think?" He teased with a grin.

Coco shook her head and gave the back of his a light smack with the rolled-up booklet as she passed by en route to her own bed.

"Ow!" He feigned, gripping his head.

Coco let out a huff of air watching him whining and writhing on the couch like the smart-ass he was.

"You're lucky you're hot," she threatened, rolling her eyes.

"She left a few hours ago to go shopping," Yatsuhashi offered. "She said she'd be back around..." he paused, checking the time on his scroll, "forty minutes ago."

"Wow," Coco hummed. "A helpful teammate! Imagine that!"

Fox merely chuckled from across the room.

"Thank you, Yatsu," she turned warmly to the gentle giant, sarcastic tone now absent from her voice.

He nodded and smiled in return.

Not long after, Fox heard the characteristic sounds of a gentle, familiar patter on the floor of the hallway outside their room.

"Incoming," he announced.

His teammates looked over in his direction.

"T-minus five."

By now he had gotten good at tracing the timing of his teammates' approach based on the sounds of their footsteps. He owed this knack to both his heightened hearing and his familiarity with the quirks and patterns of his teammates' gaits after over a year spent living together.

"Four...?"

His head twitched and eyes squinted as the number came out with a quizzical tone. This was definitely the sound of Velvet's feet, but something about their cadence was subtly off.

"Three?"

He was speeding up his pacing to keep up with the unexpectedly lively rhythm of her feet clacking along the surface of the hallway floor.

"Tw-"

The mistimed count barely had time to register as a sharp hiss of air before the door to their room swung open and revealed the brightly beaming bunny as she bounded inside.

"Sal-u-tations, team-mates!" Velvet enunciated cheerfully.

'Huh...' Caught off guard, Fox raised an eyebrow at her uncharacteristically boisterous entrance.

Coco let out a chuckle, "well, if it isn't the girl of the hour!"

"Apologies for my tardiness, everyone; I just met the nicest, cutest girl downtown! She was so friendly and she had the most adorable freckles! I just had to snag a selfie with her!" She giggled and made her way over to the small kitchen area to begin unpacking her bags.

"I took the liberty of doing some grocery shopping while I was out too! We were getting low on bread, eggs and creme..." she rattled off. "And carrots..." she muttered under her breath as she began restocking the team's food supply.

"Aw, you didn't have to do that, dear." Coco smiled. Velvet was always kind and never failed to notice when their kitchen stock was running low, but she hardly ever went out grocery shopping on her own like that.

"Hey," Velvet dismissed with a hand wave in her leader's direction, "what are friends fo-...?"

Suddenly, Velvet pulled herself out of the minifridge sitting against the wall and stood still and statuesque.

Yatsuhashi tilted his head at her as her response ceased. "... Velvet?"

She unfroze her posture and walked straight ahead towards Coco, looking around between her and the rest of her team.

"Friends..." she repeated.

Her eyes peered into Coco's and her stare suddenly seemed to extend for miles. "Are we... 'friends'?" She swiftly tilted her head into an angle with the movement of a clock's hand and her long rabbit ears leaned to favor the side.

The room fell silent and her eyes soon started to break away from her roommates. The uncomfortable shock of the question was her only answer for several moments and an open frown soon began taking hold of her face.

"... What?" Fox asked in her direction, sensing the quiet discomfiture of the atmosphere just as well as anyone else, but also similarly at a loss for how to break it.

Velvet's surprising question had stirred Yatsuhashi out of his relaxed position in his bed and he walked over to her. "Of course we are, Velvet..." He knelt by her side and rested a large hand on her shoulder. "Are you feeling okay?"

Looking at her face was enough to alleviate his concern somewhat; her expression was finally lightening up, and a smile overtook the heart-breaking frown she had been wearing.

Coco blinked, removing her shades and folding them up. "How could... you think we possibly weren't?"

Suddenly, she broke into a happy pounce and wrapped her arms as well as she could around Yatsuhashi. "Thank you!"

She bounded over to Coco and to Fox to do the same.

"Oh! That's right!" She shot up one last time and hurried over to finish packing away her shopping haul as she continued. "I've got plans to hang out with Blake soon, but I'll be back tonight!" She looked up at the ceiling in thought for a moment. "I estimate this social engagement to last for approximately... three hours and twenty-seven minutes, including travel time!"

As she rushed herself out of the door, she turned back to grin to her teammates once again. "See you later..." she sang, an excited beam growing across her face in anticipation of the final word, "friends~!"

Coco, Fox and Yatsuhashi stared at the empty door in awe of their friend's bizarre new antics. A silence hung over their room as they each processed what had just happened.

Finally, Coco shook herself out of bafflement and whipped her head around to the others.

"Okay. We have to find out what is going on with that girl."

They agreed and began mulling over the strange new patterns and mannerisms of the normally quiet and timid Velvet Scarlatina.

For a moment, Fox tapped his chin in thought before an idea crossed his mind.

"Well," he hesitated. "Could be sad, maybe..."

"Mmm..." Yatsuhashi hummed pensively. "Possibly."

Coco frowned and her head dropped into her palm as she looked between the boys. "You guys think Velvet's upset about something?"

"Oh!" Fox turned around to his leader quickly and shook his head. "No no, I didn't mean sad-sad," he corrected, "I meant SSAD."

"Seasonal Semblance Affective Disorder," Yatsuhashi elaborated as he brought a hand to his chin in consideration. "That could explain a thing or two..."

Coco blinked. "... What."

"Yeah," Fox began, gesturing emptily in the air. "It's like, sometimes the seasons mess with your aura and semblance, and everything just feels kinda... out of whack?"

"Out of whack," Coco mused. "That certainly does describe Velvet's behavior as of late..."

The smell of the butter and syrup reached her nostrils and already her face lit up in anticipation.

"Ahhhh~" Velvet could practically taste it on her lips. The sweet, scrumptious scent of freshly-cooked pancakes was like heaven to her this morning.

Yatsuhashi set their plates down on the trays they'd pulled out and he sat down on the sofa. Velvet quickly took her seat next to him and proceeded to dig in.

As she ate, Velvet couldn't help but catch herself glancing his way every now and then. She was holding onto her gratitude, but hadn't yet found an opening to pull the tall boy out of his breakfast.

It was likely at her suggestion that he had offered to serve this treat for breakfast this morning, after all.

Finally, he showed on opening. He reached for his cup to take a drink and as he was setting it back down, Velvet took her shot.

"Thanks again, Yatsuhashi!" She beamed, wiping her lips with a napkin. "Nora really got me hooked on these last night..." She trailed off sheepishly.

He smiled lightly and waved it off with a nod.

She watched with a lingering grin as the gentle giant stretched and closed his eyes, his face as stoic and unrevealing as ever.

Yatsuhashi was a man of few words. He had never exactly worn his emotions on his sleeve, but he was kind and caring. His loving attitude towards his teammates was something he didn't have to show; it came across in his actions. In his quiet, comforting presence. In the way that even right now, she could just sit down next to him and feel at peace while she ate her breakfast and lightly uncoiled her index finger from the fringe of her bangs.

Wait... when had she started playing with her hair?

Ah well. She shrugged it off. It wasn't a big deal. Nothing seemed like big deal with him around, in fact.

Yatsuhashi was the kind of guy you could just sit down in silence with and almost be able to feel all of the negativity and stress in your mind and body just... fade away into nothing. He just had that sort of effect on her.

On people. In general. That's what she meant.

Not just her. Surely.

After all, who wouldn't have that sort of a reaction by just being around him? Everything about him was inviting; he never talked over you, never presumed what you were feeling and he was a wonderful listener.

All of this, and she knew still that there was an unshakable air of mystery about him. She'd learned about his life only vaguely in the year and a half they had known each other. She knew that he had a troubling experience in his childhood, and that he was afraid of something. Even if he'd never show it.

He'd shoulder all of that burden on himself... so that no one else had to worry about him.

Sometimes, Velvet just wished he would talk to her. That he would confide in her, let her be there for him like he was there for her if she needed it.

Twitch.

Huh. That's funny, she thought. She never knew she fancied the 'strong and silent' type before...

Suddenly, she shook her head. 'Wait-... What?'

Her eyebrows furrowed. Her eyelids narrowed and her mouth parted open as the pleasure of Yatsuhashi's calm, relaxing company lept across her mind.

Where did that thought come from?! She was supposed to be eating and getting ready for class, she didn't have time for this!

She didn't have time to be considering how steady Yatsuhashi's body felt against hers, or to notice that the heat his presence was producing caused a faint, warm tickle to reach the surface of her skin.

Twitch.

She definitely did not have time to play around with the thought of how it would feel if she just... nudged her body ever so slightly to rest against his. To think about how the tickling sensation might kick up if her cheek came to lay against the firm sinews of his well-built arm right next to her face.

She winced as she thought about all sorts of things she didn't have time to think about.

Her confusion and frustration with these sudden intrusive thoughts had produced a gentle whimper and the tall warrior turned to look at her.

"Velvet?"

His gentle voice poured over her like a warm shower, pulling her out of her thoughts and into his gaze.

"... Are you alright?"

Her lips trembled emptily in reply at first. Soon realizing she hadn't been saying anything at all, she took a breath and straightened herself out.

"I'm fine, Yatsu!"

She smiled and barely even noticed her leaning into him even more. Being this close to Yatsuhashi just felt right.

He shrugged and returned to take another sip of coffee.

"... How could I not be with you here with me?" Velvet blurted in little more than a whisper.

This caught the boy's attention. His eyes widened and his head swung back to her, this time with a faintly noticeable reddening on his cheeks.

For a moment, the pair sat looking at each other in silence.

Suddenly, the telltale clack of Coco's house slippers pulled her attention away from the gaze.

"Didn't expect to see you two up so early," she lightly taunted, "just eating together..."

"We're not!" Velvet whipped her head around to face Coco faster than she could blink.

The fashionista's only response was a subtle, inquisitive raising of her eyebrows as she studied the girl's mannerisms.

"I-I mean," Velvet softened, a blush reddening her already-flustered cheeks. "It's not like that-... Yatsuhashi and I- We're not like..." Her eyes ripped themselves away from Coco and darted frantically between various spots on the floor.

"We're not together," she managed to declare in as firm a voice as she could muster.

"Right, Yatsuha-...?" The name was cut short in a gasp as she turned to look back at him.

She met his eyes, already peering into hers by the time her vision had focused. They pulled her in like an ocean current, and she happily surrendered to the tide. Her entire body felt locked into place and the thumping in her heart escalated to a racing gallop.

There was something about him now that she couldn't shake. Something that... something new inside of her wanted more of.

She wanted more of her tall, dark-haired, quiet, stoic, caring teammate...

And it didn't hurt that he made the most delicious pancakes as well.

Well, this was it.

Preparations for the fastly-approaching 40th Vytal festival were wrapping up and the school was now home to yet more students, with nearly a hundred new faces on campus. The dorm's vacant rooms now housed competitors from the other kingdoms' huntsman's academies and all the hallways of Beacon seemed to be just a couple of new bodies more full.

Team CFVY had been invited to participate in the tournament and, eager to prepare for the potential match-ups, Coco had enlisted her team to help gather information. Yatsuhashi had taken post in the training rooms to observe any fighting styles or semblances of the possible competitors and Fox was roaming the fairgrounds in search of any new voices to overhear discussing plans and strategies.

While Coco was working her charm and mingling with any of the visiting students she could, Velvet had been given free reign and the camera function of her scroll was getting even more use than it had on the first day of the school year.

Thumbing through a couple of the recent photos in her album, Velvet began committing new faces to her characteristically acute memory. When the most recent subject came up in the frame of her scroll, she felt an ear twitch as she took in the image.

The black hair.

The golden eyes.

Twitch.

The smoldering glare and cheeky half-grin peered back at her in the holo screen of her scroll and Velvet could feel her insides seemingly start to boil.

Twitch.

She was being consumed by something. Some urge. Some compulsion was taking hold of her. She didn't know what it was, or what it meant. She just knew she had the desire to be a little bit... nefarious at the moment.

Her eyes narrowed to a glare and the corners her lips pulled up into a wicked grin. Her head quickly shot from side to side, eyes focused and scanning for any havoc she could wreak upon the festival-goers.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she bounced towards a crowd lining up at a nearby ice cream stall.

The loosely-held single file line was the perfect way for her to make her discreet entry into the scene of the crime!

She patiently waited for the line to draw shorter and shorter, all the while beaming like a child.

An evil child!

Finally, her stage was set; the person in front of her had just taken their place at the vendor's table and she was the next in line.

A couple of lien fell to the ground in front of her.

"Oops! Gosh am I clumsy today!" She all but shouted as she reached down to pick up the dropped goods. 'They bought it! Distraction successful!'

The perfect alibi. The perfect insidious plot, and the perfect execution so far. All there was left to do was make the one final move... aaaaaaaaaaand...

Bingo.

The transaction was complete. The customer ahead of her took back their card and the cashier handed over the delectable dairy treat. As they turned to walk off, however, a loud shout rang out and everyone in line turned to see the customer had fallen supine on the festival ground, ice cream tossed off and melting into the grass a foot away from his hand. His feet were bound by a hastily-tied knot joining the laces of his shoes together.

All of a sudden, a shrill shriek of laughter rang out amidst the crowd.

"WAHAHAHA~!"

Velvet hopped up onto the merchant's stand and cackled victoriously at her evil machinations before sauntering off into the bushes, stalking for her next victim.

There was no going back now. This was her new life.

Villainy.

Treachery...

Mischief!

She loved the rush. She loved the thrill of it. She loved the power that this satisfaction gave her.

That's right, world: no more Ms. Nice, Quiet Bunny Girl to toss around! After a life spent running and being preyed upon, she had finally turned the tables and become the predator!

No more hiding in the corner. No more teasing and taunting. And absolutely no more getting walked on by other people! She was on top now! This was her world, and if you had a problem with that, then you were in for a rude awakening! Tremble beneath her or get stomped out of her way! Muahahahaha!

Skulking the grounds for her next unwitting victim, she felt a ping of excitement as a familiar voice hit her long lapin ears.

"Team Indigo, huh?" Coco smiled, letting the word roll of her tongue. "It has such a nice ring to it."

Nebula smiled confidently. "Thank you. We're gonna give it our all this year!"

"Oh, I can't wait to see that!" Coco winked and took note of the couple of blushes she'd elicited out of the girls.

"Are you girls from around he-YEEEEEEEP!"

She startled as she felt something amiss. Her hands shot up to the top of her head, feeling around only to find that her signature hat had come off.

She whipped around and found it behind her, being twirled in the hands of one Velvet Scarlatina before she turned tail and fled.

"YOU." She shouted, raising a finger in the direction of the bouncing bunny making off with her beret. "Get back here right now, Velvet!"

The disobedient girl proudly pranced away, purloined hat perched on top of her head. She didn't have to listen to anybody anymore!

Coco slapped a hand to her face and growled under her breath.

"I'm sorry, ladies," she mustered through gritted teeth, drawing on the last of her composure. "We'll have to save this for another time..."

Her fist clenched and the girls of Team NDGO began to distance themselves from the conversation.

"...Once I figure out WHAT IN THE DUST HAS GOTTEN INTO MY TEAMMATE!" Coco shouted in her direction, chasing her down.

Nebula blinked, mouth agape. Gwen and Octavia stood similarly speechless.

Dew raised a nervous finger to point in the direction of the strange girls and turned to the rest of her team.

"I... really hope we don't have to go against them in the tournament."

Coco sat on the large coffee-colored sofa of the sophomore team's dorm, reclining with her feet on the ottoman she'd bought to match.

Her laptop scroll's holo-screen hovered above her lap and the last of her drink's heat was dissipating into the air of the living area.

In the lower-right corner of her screen, a new notification had popped up.

Instagrimm:

ScarletV3L has uploaded a new album!

A curious Coco clicked on the link and a slew of images of Team RWBY, their dog Zwei and Velvet had flooded her browser window. The most recent caption read, "hanging out with R0seR3D, YangBang, TheWeiss_Schnee and Blake! also 2weiThePup is so cute~!"

Coco chuckled while scrolling through the feed, noticing all of the pictures she'd been amassing- of all sorts of people.

She chuckled to herself. Velvet was dangerous with a camera.

Come to think of it. she had really been quite the social butterfly this semester, hadn't she?

'Maybe that's why she's been so unpredictable lately...' Coco pondered. 'Could it be the shock of all of those new friends at once?'

Then she scrolled back up far enough to see a familiar cerulean blue.

That kid... 'Neptune'?

That was the day Coco started showing these bizarre signs.

She wasn't acting like herself that day at all.

Coco gasped.

She was acting like that boy.

"Oh gods..."

Frantically scrolling back down, she replayed all of the scenes of late where Velvet had been so erratic and troublesome - so out of whack, as Fox had said - and matched each one to a different event on her Instagrimm feed.

Neptune.

The girl downtown.

Nora.

The fairgrounds.

"Semblance... Disorder..." She all but mumbled under her breath.

Her semblance! When she used her Photographic Memory, she wasn't just memorizing fighting styles; she was memorizing their personalities and behaviors as well! In her seasonally afflicted state, she'd been enacting these people's mannerisms instead of their combat styles.

Yatsuhashi took notice of her muttered words. "What's wrong?"

Without an answer, Coco bounded up from her seat.

"Come on!" she urged him, grabbing Fox by the arm and racing to the door. "We've got to go. Now!"

Together they raced down the hallways, swerving past students and staff, as Coco led them to Team RWBY's dorm room.

"Awwww, look guys!" Ruby squealed, ruffling the hair behind a furry ear with her fingers. "This is so cute!"

Yang, Blake and Weiss were gathered around in between the makeshift bunkbeds, watching in adoration. Ruby sat up in Weiss' bed, smiling ear to ear at the warm pants of air buffering at her side as her fingers worked their magic. She laughed at the way the fuzzy ears flopped as her hand moved between them and the spastic beating against her thigh as a twitching leg kicked out a happy pattern into her lap.

The door burst open to the sight of Coco, gasping and sweating, eyes scanning the room for her faunus friend.

"There she is!" She quickly found Velvet, curled up in Ruby's lap and receiving a medley of ear scritches, headpats and backrubs as the rest of her team doted on the scene.

Yatsuhashi sighed as he rounded the corner.

Fox came following behind, unsure of whether the sudden halt was a good or bad sign. "Were we too late?"

"Of course not!" Yang turned to the new arrivees. "We were just getting ready to watch her and Zwei play book-fetch!"

"Arf!" Velvet barked, her pants coming out as heavy and excitedly as ever as she lept over to her greet her friends.

Ruby pulled a book from the shelf against the dorm's center window and tossed it into the far corner, nearly knocking a lamp off of the desk. "Go fetch, Zwei!"

On command, the dog scampered off to retrieve the book and place it back at his owner's feet.

Wordlessly, Coco fell to her knees on the floor.

Her mind utterly defeated at what she was witnessing, she simply sat. And stopped thinking about it. It hurt to think by this point.

She sat there, on the floor, staring into a point a thousand yards beyond her sight as Velvet scampered over to her and greeted her with sloppy doggy kisses on her cheek. Yatsuhashi and Fox knelt down beside her and ran their hands through Velvet's bunny ears and along her fur-less back, still clad in her usual huntress uniform.

Velvet was dangerous with a camera.