They pushed through to the eastern end of the settlement, where the invading Grimm were thickest, still flooding into the town. But without the high emotions of the townspeople to draw them, they were wandering around looking for prey—which was exactly what the Huntsmen were doing.

They rescued a couple of stragglers from a trio of buzzing Lancers that had cornered them in their shack.

“Anyone else, Fox?” Coco asked.

Fox slowly turned in a circle, his face strained with concentration and fatigue. He’d been pushing himself hard for too long. They all had, but he, Velvet, and Coco had been up all night on watch duty with little opportunity to rest. And Fox and Velvet had already been out in the desert, fighting a King Taijitu.

“That’s everyone,” he said. “The Grimm are starting to thin out a little, too, but some of them are still following the evacuees.”

“Damn,” Coco said. “I didn’t think of that.”

“We can’t rejoin the others yet,” Yatsuhashi said. “We’ll just lead even more Grimm toward them.”

Fox knelt on the ground, head bowed. “So we draw them somewhere else,” he said softly.

It showed how tired he was that he’d simply spoken aloud rather than use even a little of his Semblance to communicate. Yatsuhashi gathered he didn’t have much to spare. He didn’t have to check an Aura monitor to know that all it would take was one heavy hit and Fox would be down for the count.

- RWBY: After the Fall, Chapter 7