Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-43485709-20190813023737/@comment-4010415-20190815045325

Oh, Gold is definitely from Yang to Ruby, about how she decided to be the best big sister ever after they lost Summer.

But that part I quoted from Armed and Ready is definitely about Blake, when you consider the context and the literary reason for the tense that it's written in.

It happens every night I watch my world ignite But there's no waking from this nightmare The stage is always set The place I can't forget The hidden eyes that I can feel there

My eyes are open wide I'm racing to her side There's nothing that I won't do for her But this is not a dream My mind repeats the scene I can't forget it and it's torture

That was before But not anymore I've left it behind As much as I lost Once I'm across, I'll find


 * "It happens every night / I watch my world ignite / But there's no waking from this nightmare"

Yang having nightmares about the event, like we saw in Volume 4.


 * "The stage is always set / The place I can't forget"

The cafeteria, just like in the nightmare we saw in Volume 4.


 * "The hidden eyes that I can feel there"

Adam's eyes were hidden by his mask.


 * "My eyes are open wide / I'm racing to her side / There's nothing that I won't do for her / But this is not a dream / My mind repeats the scene / I can't forget it and it's torture"

^^^^^^ This is present tense specifically because she's in the middle of reliving trying to save Blake through her nightmare. Hence, "But this is not a dream. My mind repeats the scene." which tells us that it's a memory that's being repeated. She's not talking about it in past tense because, at the time of Volume 4, it still wasn't in the past for her and every nightmare felt like it was still happening. She was still reliving it again and again.


 * "That was before / But not anymore / I've left it behind"

And at the end of Volume 4, she has gained the resolve to put it behind her, so now it feels more like it's in the past.

If the part about racing to "her" side was referring to Ruby, it wouldn't make any sense because she directly follows it up with "But this is not a dream / My mind repeats the scene / I can't forget it and it's torture". She wasn't dreaming about going after Ruby. And after that, she says "That was before / But not anymore / I've left it behind", but going after Ruby wasn't in the past at the time, it was her present goal.