#team-orgk

“Did they really have to say that out loud...?” Violet already knew what she was up against and had to calm her nerves. This was no time to do anything embarrassing. She knew she was very likely going to lose, but she was determined to put up the best fight she possibly could. “It’s okay, Vi... You survived a lot worse than this.”

Merlo arrived into the arena, she didn’t know who this Zeke Striker was, but she couldn’t let that or her nerves get the better of her in this battle, for now, she had to hope her family-based training was enough to do well at least in her fight with this stranger.

“-And of course your eyes.” She breathes softer, cupping his face so as to gaze into honeyed amber. “Even from the first they struck me with your kindness, your intelligence shines so clearly in them.”

This meeting was probably going to go like all the others, but that made Qrow smile slightly. He decided to go his usual route to Ozpin’s office, and flew up to the window and tapped on it to get the busy headmaster’s attention.

         He’d be lying - which, to be fair, he did quite a lot - if he said the woman’s presence was not extremely unnerving.  That his current operation had been found by any huntsman was unnerving, and he and Neo would have to figure out how that had happened.  But, that was a job for later, when they weren’t currently facing down the kind of huntress who could land them in some boiling water levels of trouble.

“Well, I don’t know about attractive. He certainly has a... rather prominent jawline. And piercing blue eyes. And that silver in his hair that tells of experience. And he’s built like a brick wall. You know, if you’re into that sort of thing.” Renatus cleared his throat, trying very hard not to seem as flustered as he actually was. “I simply... appreciate the role he plays on the world stage, and the innovations he’s made. He’s a... role model, of sorts.”

“Haha, what? I don’t- You’re silly. You’re being silly. I don’t have a- I mean, come now, how inappropriate. Now, do I respect the work that General Ironwood does? Of course I do! Do I like the cut of his jib? Naturally! But a crush? Well I’m sure lots of people do, I mean look at him, but I’m certainly not... Who are you anyway?”

“I know... But it isn’t up to either of us.” Jinn sighed, glancing up towards the sky. “The only ones who could set me free are the ones who gave you your mission to begin with. And I am not going to gather the relics and potentially doom the world simply because I desire my freedom. I am not like Salem.”