“Speaking of survival skills, do you know where we’re going?” Yatsuhashi asked.

“You don’t?” Sun asked.

Velvet and Yatsuhashi glanced at each other. Then they shook their heads.

Sun laughed. “Thanks. That makes me feel better.”

“It’s dark … ,” Velvet said.

“You can see just as well as I can,” Sun said. Though it wasn’t true for all Faunus, Velvet and Sun’s Faunus eyes gave them excellent night vision. “And it’s a full moon.”

“This city seems like it’s all alleys. None of the streets make sense,” Yatsuhashi said.

“That’s because it is all alleys.” It wasn’t like the city was planned out, like Vale, or engineered, like Atlas. When he first came here, Sun had learned that the city just kind of happened. People settled wherever they stopped moving, and the city sprouted up gradually around Shade Academy wherever houses and buildings fit, typically clustered around the small oases and patches of greenery that were too stubborn to give in to the desert.

- RWBY: Before the Dawn, Prologue