~ Starbright ~

"Do you KNOW who I am?" the girl in white asks angrily, as the smoke from the explosion clears away.

"Uh..." Ruby replies, as eloquent as ever. She blinks a few times, staring at the girl's forehead as she tries to figure out if it's just a trick of the light or residual ash from the explosion that she's seeing. "... my soulmate, apparently?"

The heiress was about to introduce herself during the awkward pause, but her interlocutor's proclamation brings her up short.

Rather than bothering to help Ruby to her feet, Weiss leans down to peer at the other girl's starbright. Yes, that is definitely her eye color.

"Argh!" she growls as she straightens up. "Why does my soulmate have to be some childish... fool... child?!"

"I'm not a child," Ruby protests quietly. She still makes no move to get up off the ground until another girl comes over and reaches out to help her up.

"Well, at least she's not a Faunus," Weiss concedes, seeming content to have found one tolerable aspect of her soulmate.

"Ouch," Ruby groans as the girl who was helping her up drops her back to the ground again.

~oOo~