Edward’s breathing calmed. His forehead crinkled in concentration. And then he smiled.

They stopped sinking.

The holes around the desert filled in, and the sand stilled. The dead Ravager near Bertilak smoked and faded away like the other defeated Grimm. Everyone looked at one another, wondering, was it really over?

Bertilak scrambled over to a mound of sand and started digging. Yatsuhashi spotted the hand sticking out of it and joined him. They worked quickly, but the sand fell back into the hole as soon as they could scoop it away.

“We’re losing her,” Yatsuhashi said.

“Keep digging!” Bertilak grunted.

Velvet fiddled with her camera, walking toward Bertilak and Yatsuhashi.

“Stand back,” she said.

“Velvet?” Yatsuhashi looked up as a hard-light hologram formed in Velvet’s hand. A glowing blue trumpet. It flickered and dimmed in the sunlight. Velvet was nearly out of Light Dust.

“What good is that?” Bertilak asked.

Yatsuhashi’s eyes widened. He grabbed Bertilak by the back of his armor and hauled him away.

Velvet put the trumpet to her lips, leaned back, and blew a clear note. Sound waves blasted out of the trumpet and blew sand away in sheets. Carmine was uncovered in a second, just as the trumpet disappeared, the note slowly fading away.

Bertilak hopped into the canyon and picked Carmine up.

“Good going, Velvet,” Coco said. She looked around. “I think we won.”

- RWBY: After the Fall, Chapter 18