บท 203: 37.4 Story Hooks?

RUBY

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Eating into her orange, Ruby knew very well that her ward had just stolen from someone with a bit more standing than she had hoped for him to target. Fresh fruit was a luxury, even for some of the higher echelons living in Vulcan, and she could only hope that nobody managed to tail Garnet back down to this small pigsty of a home she scrounged up in a day or so.

It hadn't always been like this. She knew more than enough to live well beyond their current means. Hell, she probably even had enough connections to never go hungry if she ever so desired to go down that route. Only... she didn't. Or rather, she couldn't. No... There was too much risk involved in showing herself...

"Sis?"

Holding onto her scowl, Ruby looked up to her liar of an adoptive little brother. Not that she blamed him for resorting to such methods, but the gall on this kid to brazenly lie straight to her face was rather annoying at times.

"Yeah?" she asked as she turned to face him.