Coco ran and slipped up a muddy slope, the stone of the cave giving way to soft earth, bathed in moonlight. She came out on the bank of a stream, just above the rushing water. Velvet was just ahead of her, kneedeep in the middle of the stream with Linus and his family. They were surrounded by Ursai.

Velvet was now brandishing a pair of hard-light daggers.

“Why’d you pick those, Velvet?” Coco muttered. She needed to get better at sizing up her enemies and choosing the best weapon and fighting style to take them down.

An Ursai snapped at Velvet and she smacked it in the side of the head with one dagger, knocking it back. It shook its head, lunged for her again, and she threw the second dagger into its open mouth. The glowing blade protruded from the back of its head. The red faded from its eyes and it went down.

Velvet turned and tilted her head at Coco, eyebrows raised.

Another Ursa attacked. Velvet parried its blows with her remaining dagger. Fox sped ahead of Yatsuhashi and Coco and took down an Ursa with a series of jabs and slashes from his arm blades. Yatsuhashi skewered the one beside it and tossed it away from its pack.

The refugees ran through the opening in the ring of Grimm toward Coco.

- RWBY: After the Fall, Chapter 11