"Well, that field trip could have gone better." Ravus groaned, shaking more leaves from his cape as he and the team entered their room.

"I don't know. I think it went pretty well." Natasha commented, picking up the scarlet leaves from the floor.

"Jaune nearly got eaten by an Ursa and we found out Cardin wanted to get Pyrrha mauled by Rapier Wasp." Ravus deadpanned, putting Shooting Star under his bed for storage until tomorrow.

"But according to Ruby and Pyrrha Jaune stood his ground against both that Ursa and our local Grimm Cardin." Vivian countered.

"I wish I could have seen that." Natasha commented, now organizing the leaves on one of the desks. "I bet he did amazing."

"It certainly is inspiring to see him grow into a leader so quickly." Vivian agreed sitting on her bed. Ravus cringed slightly at Vivian's comment. He knew she didn't say anything toward him, but it still stung.

"And into his own leader too. Not some version that he feels he has to be." Aero added, looking at Ravus rather than Vivian. I still think your semblance is mind reading. It make sense with how you say you don't ever use it.

Ravus looked away from Aero and quickly went to the bathroom to wash his face. He didn't particularly like the outdoors and getting knocked over into a pile of sappy leave by Team CRDL running away from the Ursa was not his idea of fun. He also felt dirty on the inside. He didn't want to seem unhappy for Jaune and Team JNPR, but in a way he wasn't. He wasn't happy for himself. It's been two months since they had started at Beacon and now Ravus really felt like the last one to understand what he was doing here. He thought at least since Jaune seemed to not know what he was doing that maybe he was OK. Now Jaune willingly got beat up and simultaneously beat the school bully because of his team.

Ravus audibly groaned and leaned his head forward against the mirror. However he went forward a little faster than he thought and knocked his head against the mirror, causing him to groan a second time.

"Are you ok Ravus?" He heard Natasha call concerned.

"Yeaup." He responded through gritted teeth as he held his head. "Just found more sap in my cape and knocked something over." Ravus stifled another groan as he massaged his head.

"And he gained even more respect from his peers because of it." Ravus stilled himself as he heard Vivian speak, her voice slightly muffled by the door. "Though his new confidence will help, the greatest ally to a leader are his allies and friends."

"How do you know so much about this kind of stuff?" Natasha asked.

"My family."

"Are they huntsmen?"

"Not exactly." Vivian corrected. "My family is very involved with Faunus rights and have often had to go against some not so pleasant people."

"Like Cardin."

"Worse if you can imagine." Vivian joked.

"You mean like Weiss." Natasha returned.

"Actually Weiss is not as bad as the stories I've heard." Vivian laughed lightly. "But because of those disagreements between people in high places and our position in the Faunus community, we had to find ways to gain support. Almost everyone had to learn the ways of leadership and diplomacy. Some more than others."

Ravus could feel the weight Vivian implied in her voice. She's had to be a leader. She doesn't speak this way and give good advice because she's a natural. She's like this because she's had to.

Ravus looked back at himself in the mirror. He'd been thinking for a while how Aero and Vivian should have been picked as leader. He just could never bring himself to say it, with everyone so proud that he had this opportunity. But they were leaders because of they didn't deny situations they had been put in. Traveling through them made Aero and Vivian a good leaders. Maybe it was time to finally accept his own.

"Ravus are you ok?" Ravus jumped at Natasha's voice at the other side of the bathroom door.

"Uh, yeah." He responded. He opened the door and looked at Vivian. For so long he had seen her as un-reachable example. Now he saw her differently. And though he didn't know it, everyone else saw something different about him too. And it wasn't the new bump on his forehead.