Thanks for the feedback on the last chapter, it was nice. Hope you like this chapter too! Also, I forgot to put this warning in the first chapter, but I don't have personal experience with how selective muteness works, so not everything is going to be absolutely correct for the sake of story, if it ends up being correct anyways then good for me I guess.
In her defense, Ruby didn't mean to crash into the girl. Disoriented from Yang's burst of energy as she went and abandoned her to go find more friends, she stumbled backwards into the unsuspecting girl. Not only the girl, but her luggage as well, sending vials of dust everywhere.
"What do you think you're doing?" The girl rounded on her immediately, staring down at her with brilliantly blue eyes. Her white hair was so bright that it almost sparkled in the wind, and only made her sharp eyes stand out even more.
Ruby had taken out her scroll, not like she could count on everyone knowing sign language, and typed out her response, fingers flying across the keypad. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bump into you."
"Sorry? That's all you can say? This is dust, mined from the Schnee Dust Company's mines. Its priceless to any decent huntress. I didn't fight my way into this school just to be sent home because some clumsy kid can't keep her hands to herself." The girl's eyes were storming, and Ruby could see that her closed fists were trembling with fury.
"I'm really, really sorry. But none of your dust broke, so that's good." Ruby promptly typed and held it out to the girl.
"It doesn't have to break to be deadly. You can just wave it in the air and its already a disaster waiting to happen. But I don't think some kid like you would know that." The girl picked up a vial of red dust and shook it for affect, the red powder spreading through the air.
The powder invading her nose, Ruby started to sniffle and tried to warn the girl before the inevitable occurred. But it was already too late.
"Achoo!" Ruby sneezed, a flame sparking to life as the dust reacted to the sudden excitement. The flames covered the poor girl hovering over her, engulfing her in their smoldering heat. Once the smoke had cleared, Ruby took the chance to stand back up but was left facing a now smoke covered girl glaring at her.
"See! This is exactly what I meant. Are you even supposed to be here?" The girl snarled, shoving her face near Ruby's shrinking form.
"I said I was sorry, princess!" Ruby voice, hoarse and faded, shouted out, startling even Ruby. Her eyes widened as she realized what she had done, and with a whirl of rose petals she was gone. Leaving the snow haired girl behind to her confusion.
Once she was far enough away, Ruby let out a sigh of relief and slumped against the wall, letting it do the hefty job of supporting her weight.
What was she thinking, why did she do that? Go Ruby, finally say something to someone other than her sister and it's an insult! Now that girl was sure to hate her, well maybe that was inevitable, but it still wasn't the way she wanted to start off her new school life. All she wanted was a normal first day at a new school, was that too much to ask? Stupid body, doing weird things out of nowhere.
She had promised herself before coming to Beacon to try and talk to people, finally let her voice out after years of forcing it down. And what happens? She starts freezing up when all she wants is to shout with excitement, shrink back when she wants to join a conversation. Her body rebelling against her wishes, a culmination of infuriating juxtapositions that she could never seem to escape.
But still, her first words to a stranger in over 10 years. And who knows, maybe the girl wouldn't hate her after this? Ruby sure hoped so, she would like the chance to get to know the girl on better terms.