The Beacon library was a very large building. With more than three stories stacked to the brim with books, it was a historians dream, and many joked that if you needed to find out about anything, you should go to beacon.
Weiss was initially unimpressed, but then again, she lived here, and had frequented this library often for an assignment, or for research into company policies, thus, it had already lost some of it's effect on the girl.
Ruby and Yang on the other hand, seemed to be treating it like it was the first time that they had ever stepped foot into the place, mouths hanging open comically, and eyes wide at the rows upon stacks of books squeezed into each shelf.
"Would the two of you close your mouths, you're going to attract flies at this rate," Weiss snapped in annoyance, once again rethinking her plan of spending time with the two idiots.
"Oh as if any bugs would want to come in here, with Blakey always lighting up incense sticks," Yang commented idly, while Ruby continued to gawk.
Weiss stopped paying attention to the blonde girl as her eyes trailed over to the youngest member of their group, a whole new field of questions cropping up in her mind as she looked her over. She had to wonder where Ruby had come from, if she was so amazed by a simple library, especially considering it seemed that she frequented this location in search of this "Blake" boy.
Their attention was taken as a soft voice spoke up through the din and their individual wandering thoughts, which gained the attention of the three girls, and caused their eyes to snap onto a new figure in the room, who had all but appeared silently before them.
'How did she manage to sneak up on us?' Weiss asked herself, the girl's pride in her combat training making her believe that no one could surprise her anymore, and cursing herself for being distracted by the redheaded enigma next to her.
The white haired heiress was even more surprised when the redhead in question took one look at the girl, and charged at her, shouting at the top of her little lungs, "BLAKEY!" obviously going in for a hug with the fair-skinned girl, who had her nose firmly planted into a thick book she held with one hand.
Both blonde and white were startled into silence though when the Black-haired girl casually sidestepped the redhead's advances, and the younger girl fell to the floor in an adorable heap.
"As much as I care about you Ruby, my no hugging rule is still in effect," The girl warned, and Weiss was surprised at the sheepish look of disappointment on Ruby's face at the girl's declaration.
"Aww," The girl whined childishly, but took the offered hand up and grinned at the older girl as if nothing had happened, the two acting like the best of friends before Weiss' very eyes.
"So Blakey, What'cha reading this time?" Yang asked, popping up on the other side of the girl, failing miserably at being subtle while she attempted to look over the girl's shoulder, and pointedly ignoring the bored look the ebony-haired girl was giving her.
"It's nothing your simple mind could understand Yang, I thought we had gone over this before," Blake announced so matter-of-factly that Ruby began to giggle beside her, while Yang huffed at being insulted.
Weiss already felt like an outsider amongst these three, they acted as if they were the best of friends, despite the Black-haired girl's obvious insistence that they weren't, and treated them more like annoyances she had to put up with, and it made her heart clench slightly to see that little sky-pirate acting so friendly with the girl.
"Oh Blake! We haven't introduced you yet!" Ruby suddenly cried, gaining everyone's attention, and causing the yellow-eyed girl to raise an eyebrow curiously at her friend.
"This is Weiss, we met while I was on my way up from lower beacon, and she followed me home," The redhead began, and Weiss was once again startled as the younger girl put on a very convincing puppy-dog face, and whined up at her, "Can I keep her?"
The room was stunned into silence at the redhead's question, all of them looking at Ruby in varying levels of astonishment. Weiss huffed at the thought of being compared to an animal, Yang was laughing her fool head off, and Blake only seemed mildly annoyed at the comment.
"Ruby, a person is not a pet, and besides, shouldn't you be talking to Yang about keeping a pet? she is your sister, I would remind you." The girl casually explained, and the white-haired girl thought she saw a small smirk appear upon the librarian's face as her temper began to flare as everyone continued to talk as if she was some animal.
Ruby, not noticing any of this, turned to her big sister with her eyes wide, and her lower lip quivering slightly in the universal form of "begging," which the blonde was loathe to admit was absolutely adorable, and tried hard not to make eye contact with those big, watery silver eyes.
Unfortunately, the girl's curiosity got the better of her, and her lilac eyes drifted slowly towards the 15-year old, and that was, as they say, the end of that, as the argument against such a thought, and the teasing she had been planning to give her sister all but died on her tongue.
Groaning when her sister's eyes lit up, and she stood straighter, Yang was disturbingly aware that her sister knew she had won, and was basking in it, just waiting patiently for those few words she was looking for.
"Fiiiine," The blonde groaned, drawing out the simple syllables to make it sound like more of a chore, though a smile was tugging at the corner of her lips over her sister's childishness.
Weiss spluttered nearby, trying to think up a reason to bite into the two girls for their immaturity, but was simply too incensed at being compared to a common dog to form actual words, Her blind anger growing all the more when she noticed out of the corner of her eye as Blake was trying to hide a smirk behind the thick book she had been reading from the entire time.
"So is there a reason you're here, putting yourself in danger, once again I might add, when you should be checking in with Crow?" The black-haired girl spoke up from around her book, cutting off any angry retorts Weiss may have been planning to spew out at the two girls.
Ruby gave the girl a small smile as she spoke up, turning away from her big sister and locking eyes with the librarian, "Because I haven't been to port in forever, and I missed you guys. Plus, you were on the way to Uncle Crow's anyways, so I though 'why not stop in and see my favourite kitty!' and then you were all 'grr, I'm Blake, leave me alone with my boring old books,' and then..." Whatever other tales the redhead was going to regale the three with were lost when a certain blonde-haired girl's hand found it's way over her mouth.
"Easy there little sister, you're blathering again," Yang warned, though Weiss wasn't fooled by the amused grin on the older girl's face.
"So you are planning to see crow then?" Blake spoke up, regaining the girls attention, and getting a nod from Ruby, "Well then, you might want to get going immediately, I heard that the city guard were planning a meeting with him about a new shipment of weapons," She explained, before adding as an afterthought, "today, as a matter of fact, which just goes to show your luck and timing is simply impeccable."
Ruby didn't appear to hear this last part, as she had already begun to panic mid-sentence upon the word city guard, as Weiss thought she should, the city didn't take well to "sky pirates" wandering up from lower beacon, and it was the guard's job to smoke out and detain any that got the bright idea of stealing from upper beacon.
"Oh man, we have to go now then!" Ruby cried, and charged out of the double doors to the library with a small crash, Weiss noting in slight shock the trail of rose petals that seemed to trail after her.
Yang turned to face her friend with a scowl, ignoring the princess standing behind them, and began muttering, "It's going to be one of those visits, isn't it?" She seemed to ask no one in particular.
Blake on the other hand, seemed quite nonchalant in her response, or at least, what Weiss caught around the book, "At least her visits are somewhat interesting, all you ever want to do is steal my books."
"And with good reason!" Yang tried to defend herself, "All you do all day and night is sit in this stuffy old library, reading about the outside world instead of living in it. and you wonder why Ruby and I worry about you all the time."
"You worry about me because if I disappeared you would have no one to pull pranks on when Ruby is out at sea," Blake pointed out, which made Yang release the most peculiar sound, akin to that of a strangled cry, and someone stepping on a cat's tail. Or at least Weiss found it peculiar.
"Speaking of which, your sister is currently out on the streets by herself, unaware that the city guard are currently approaching the same destination as her, and probably about to get into all sorts of trouble, and we dare not miss this encounter," Blake said with finality, and moved towards the main doors.
Weiss watched Yang for a few moments, amused at how her mouth flapped open like a fish, obviously the thought of her little sister getting into trouble not even crossing her mind when she dashed from the large room, and only now seemed to be coming to terms with it.
"Oh god Ruby! get back here!" Yang shouted, dashing from the room, Blake knowingly opening the doors before the golden-haired girl could smash them down in practiced ease, which only made Weiss curious how often this might happen, before the Black-haired girl flipped a sign on the door to closed, and beckoned the white-haired girl out with her.
As she continued to lock up, somehow with her eyes still trained on her book, Blake spoke up to her for the first time since their odd meeting began, "Trust me, you do not want to miss the kind of mischief these two can make during one of Ruby's "visits" The girl assured, though she still sounded nonchalant about the whole matter.
All the shell-shocked Weiss could do was nod, aware that things around beacon were more than likely about to become loud, and that she might end up in the middle of it.
A less sensible side of her mind told her firmly that she didn't care, and her adventurous side urged her along.
Weiss knew this was going to be a bad idea.