Agility B3C7/B3C8

"These are the ruins?" I asked. "Somehow, I imagined something more."

We'd just crested the hill after a short and rocky climb. It wasn't so much a mountain as a raised platform I half-expected had been man made over a thousand years ago. Now, it was a grassy and rocky plateau. Atop that, the ruins of whatever this had been stood, but they were broken down and ragged – with several pillars and archways half-buried into the grass. Moss and lichen had taken over what remained.

"What did you expect?" Ren huffed, climbing up beside me. The Monk had handled the exertion far worse than I had, but that was nothing compared to Weiss, who looked like she was dying. Ren shook some sweat from his brow. "It's a ruin. Those don't tend to stay in one piece."

"The ones in Atlas were fairly well preserved. I guess I thought this would be like that."

"The Fang was a mostly inaccessible mountain filled with Grimm. This is a tall hill less than a quarter of a mile off the main road, which has until recently been fairly safe."

–B3C7


As the sun vanished behind the mountains and twilight gave way to night, we moved out from our hidden camp in the trees and towards the ruins. The wind was cold enough to chill our bones, but light enough to listen for the beat of wings. We would be most vulnerable climbing the hill up towards the plateau, but we hadn't dared make camp close to it in case we were attacked. I paused on a rock and reached down an arm to help Weiss up, the Mage light enough for me to drag up the rock face.

"Thanks," she whispered, and pushed past me to scale higher. Out of everyone in the group, she, Ren and Ruby were the ones who struggled the last time, and I wasn't the only one helping them up. Yang clambered up with Ruby on her back, while Nora dragged Ren by the hand. It wasn't a show of weakness from any of them. If we got stuck in combat, we'd need their firepower.

Further ahead and cresting the ridge, Blake perched gracefully on a rocky outcrop, one hand on the rock as she crouched low.

–B3C8