Chapter: Players and Pieces

Ruby would like one – just one would be great, thanks – normal first meeting with a soulmate of hers. Seeing as the first involved living shadows, and now this woman comes riding into the clearing on an Ursa, it's not looking so great.

'Nora!'

So, yah. The orange haired woman with a mallet is her soulmate.

Ruby groans and runs forwards, trying to stall the Nevermore from attacking the falling Weiss.

This is her life.

But, of course, the words under the name only make sense when her soulmate's partner speaks up.

'Time we left!'

Two sentences linked together. A connection saying there isn't one without the other.

And they are in the middle of a battle, so Ruby can't even hint at the words between the three of them.

One, tame meeting, would be very nice.

Four chances left.

…Ruby's still not confident it will happen.


A/N: Thanks for reading!

Thank you, TheParadoxicalOxymoron, for your review! Glad you enjoyed! Thank you so much for reviewing (both this story and the other one), and I hope you enjoy this and the next chapters.

Thank you, Littlest1, for your review! Funny that you mention that; once the story reaches a certain point I'll ask if there are any requests, but there are a few pairing chapters in the future that need to happen first. Thank you again for your review, and I hope you enjoy the chapters!

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