Blake didn't react as Weiss hugged her shoulders, rocking the Faunus back and forth as she sang. They were in the back of a limousine, the windows tinted and the artificial lights rather dim. Blake enjoyed the ambiance.
"Let's go Blakey, Blakey, Blakey till we see the sun!" Weiss belted out, almost too loud for the enclosed space, "I know we only met but it's been so much fun!~ And never, never, never stop for anyone-"
The other two taller Schnees smiled gently and, occasionally, awkwardly, as they watched their daughter rock Blake back and forth. They were sipping some sort of alcohol as they played a half-hearted chess match.
Blake avoided eye contact with them after a the first few minutes. Instead, she tried to enjoy Weiss's singing. She failed.
Eventually, they arrived at their destination. Weiss opened the door and pulled Blake out by the wrist.
Blake blinked in the sunlight. She appreciated the general idea of a sun-like entity and the necessary role it performed on Remnant's various ecological cycles, and she liked how warm its rays were, but she didn't actually like the sun.
Once Blake's eyes adjusted, she could see the signs on the edifice of their destination.
It was the zoo. Weiss had promised a surprise, and this was what it was.
Weiss hugged Blake. "We get to see the animals! Just like you, Blakey!"
Blake's expression flattened. "there'll be caged Faunus?"
"No, I meant, like, wild animals, Blake! Aren't you wild, deep down? I know I am!"
Blake blinked.
The other taller Schnee stepped up and shielded her eyes as she looked over the lines. "However, we can go to the circus next week if you'd prefer," she said.
Blake glared.
The other taller Schnee waved the air. "Or maybe we can see if our lawyers can arrange us a cameo at Japari park."
Blake blinked.
Then Weiss tugged on her arm, to drag her towards the entrance.
The Schnees and Blake walked up to the front of the line, cutting groups of tourists and families and a group of children from some religious institution. Mum Schnee paid some lien to the ticket master. Someone opened the 'employee only' door and escorted the four of them into the zoo proper.
Blake crinkled her nose. Yes, this certainly was a place where lots of animals were kept in small enclosures. And they were still in the front of the zoo, where the visitor center and gift shop and the nicest restrooms and the dining areas all resided. The smell would get stronger near the center.
Mum Schnee departed towards the bathroom. Pa Schnee took a seat on a nearby bench.
Weiss put down her and Blake's travel pack and rummaged through it. She pulled out a bottle. Blake looked closer at the label and saw that it was sunscreen. Weiss dabbed some on her nose and her chin and the parts of her forehead and cheek that weren't covered by her eyepatch.
And then Weiss tried to put some on Blake.
Blake intercepted Weiss's hands and glared and hissed.
"No Blake!" Weiss whined, "We'll be out in the sun for a long time, and you don't want your skin to burn, do you? That's how you get skin cancer, or worse, wrinkles! And it won't be fun, Blake! It won't be fun at all."
Blake blinked.
Weiss pushed the sunscreen bottle into Blake's face. "You don't want wrinkly cancer, do you, Blake?"
Blake considered things.
Blake let go of Weiss and closed her eyes and tried to stand still as Weiss rubbed cold, sticky goo on her face and neck.
As a further precaution, Weiss pulled out two matching wide-brimmed sunhats. She put one on her head and, very excitedly, plopped one down on Blake's head. It smushed Blake's ears down, so Blake chewed some holes into it. Weiss thought the ears poking out of the hat looked cute; Blake knew that, because Weiss bit her hands and said, 'Blakey, you're so cute!', and then hugged Blake around the shoulders, really hard. Blake could smell the sunscreen on her.
The other taller Schnee returned, clutching her own sunhat (not quite matching Blake and Weiss's, though), and gathered the group of them.
"So we should visit the gift shop first, so we don't forget anything you've wanted on the way here, and then again on the way out, in case we find a new favorite animal. There's a thirty minute bus tour around the facilities, which departs every fifteen minutes, so we don't especially need to time our activities before then. Then we can go around the west end, at all the large mammals. By then our sunscreen should wear off, so we'll return here for lunch. Afterwards we can see the mostly indoors reptile house and insect enclosure. We can adjust the itinerary if necessary."
The taller Schnee nodded, and Weiss agreed verbally. She asked if Blake was excited, and Blake blinked.
Blake perused the books at the gift shop. A good book could last a long time. And some of them had really good pictures of animals that looked really tasty.
"Blake, Blake!" Weiss suddenly called from the side. She ran up to Blake, with her hands behind her back. "I got you a present, Blake!"
Weiss held her hands out before her. She was holding a giant, spotted, stuffed animal snake.
"It's a snakey!"
Weiss then wrapped the snake around Blake's neck, like a scarf. Three layers up, it concealed Blake's chin, and the snake's head rested down over Blake's left shoulder.
"is this," Blake said, from behind the snake around her head, "just because it rhymes with 'Blakey'?"
"Noooo~," Weiss unwrapped the snake one loop, by the head, so she could move the snake's head around without pulling on Blake's neck. "It's also because snakes and kitties both hiss! See, Hiss~!" Weiss wobbled the snake in front of Blake's face.
Blake stared.
"Hiiiiiiisssssssss~~" Weiss wobbled the snake, up and down, close enough that a felt bifurcated tongue tickled the tip of Blake's nose, up and down.
Blake blinked.
Weiss brought the snake even closer, so much that Blake had to lean back slightly. "Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss~~~~~~~~" Weiss inhaled," -iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
The snake licked every bit of Blake's face. Blake tried not to smile.
Wesss then stepped back, her ecstatic grin faded into a neutral expression. "It's okay if you don't like it, Blakey. I can get you something else."
Blake cleared her throat and petted the snake. "no, don't. it's nice."
Weiss's grin returned. "Yay!" She hugged Blake, and the snake.
"Now c'mon," Weiss grabbed Blake by the hand and led her further into the animal smells. "the tour bus is starting to accept passengers!"