Endurance B4C4

We'd already been travelling for a few hours since meeting him, the first one or two offering little opportunity to get anything out of him since Ruby and Yang wanted to be filled in on everything they'd missed from home. I picked up a few little things from the conversation, such as the fact their father was called Taiyang or Tai, and that he was a Brawler like Yang. That must have made Summer a reaper.

We broke camp around one or two in the afternoon, with Qrow explaining that it would be easier on us to rest now and travel through the night to reach the port. "The sun will just sap your energy," he said, "and with less Grimm around during the day, at least on the busy roads, it's usually safer to camp while the sun is up."

He received no argument from, certainly not from me. We'd been trekking for hours now, and my armour had begun to weigh on me, not to mention how uncomfortable it was with all the sweat. As the others dropped bags, I took the chance to shuck it off and bask in the fresh air against my linen tunic. Ren and Nora quickly set about making a camp, while Yang and Blake went for wood for a fire. Ruby offered to collect water with Pyrrha, and I would have gone with them if not for Qrow grabbing me by the shoulder.

"We'll hunt for some meat," he called. "How does deer sound?"

It sounded good if their responses were any indication. Weiss looked like she wanted to offer to help, but she had the least stamina of all of us and was currently panting on an upturned log. I took pity on her.

"Weiss, can you keep first watch while everyone gets ready?"

She shot me a critical look, but there was no hiding the relief she felt. "Y-Yes, of course. Leave it to me." She began to cast some spells around the camp, chanting softly under her breath. Luckily for her, that didn't require her to give up her seat or much-needed rest.

Qrow chuckled under his breath and dragged me off into the nearby forest, in the opposite direction of Yang and Blake's loud woodcutting. "That was kind of you," he said once we were alone. "Poor girl looked like she was fit to collapse. I take it our esteemed Atlesian Mage isn't used to roughing it in the field."

"You'd be surprised," I said, coming to Weiss' defence. "She never complained when we climbed the Fang."