A/N: Ruby's thoughts aren't always the best...

Nora's infected blood was on Ren's nose!

Ren may be infected!

Is there anything they can do to stop someone from turning?

Ruby takes Glynda aside to ask about Ren. She explains why she thinks he may be infected in greater detail.

Glynda considers the information for a moment. "...I will be honest- and blunt. From what you have told me...I am quite surprised that he is still human. When someone is infected, the first sign is smoke. It starts very quickly, and it rapidly escalates. I don't know what this means for him-he has not turned yet, but I think it is safe to assume he is infected and may turn."

Give Glynda the knife in Ruby's inventory.

While we're at it, clean off Velvet's knife.

Ruby proceeds to hand over the knife to her professor. "Thanks, but-" Glynda puts the knife away and pulls out her Dust crop form its strap on her boot. "I do still have this."

Ruby then moves over to Velvet and asks to see her knife.

"Help yourself-be careful though."

"Alright, let's get this clean."

While cleaning off the blade Ruby hears 3D say nearby, "Ｄｕｄｅ, ｔｈａｔ'ｓ ｍｙ ｂｌｏｏｄ..."

King smooch Glynda

The thought pops into her head after she hands the knife back to Velvet. Ruby cups her hands around her mouth and shouts. "Kiss her. Do it!"

Glynda and King give her humorless looks.

"Ｒｕｂｙ ｎｏ."

"Let's not." Glynda says as she pushes King's head away, just in case.

Feed bloodied rag to 3D.

Without considering her actions, Ruby hands the rag over to 3D. She takes it and begins to chew on it. Ruby realizes she let her thoughts control her actions again and worriedly watches.

The rest of the group look at 3D with varying degrees of shock and disgust, well, except King and Glynda. They look quite unamused by all of it. Then, like a vacuum, 3D consumes the entire rag in one swallow, making Ruby feel even more worried, while the others look like they may vomit. King looks disappointed in 3D's unnecessary actions and Glynda remained expressionless.

How does Glynda know so much about entities?

Did she operate with them at some point, before everything went down?

"Well, I was there...I don't remember anything past becoming an entity."

Without any kind of warning the next string of thoughts forced its way out of Ruby. Causing her to blurt out something regrettable.

"We need to chain up Ren as Glynda was. It's a cruel thing, but it gave her enough time for a reversing method to be found."

Ruby promptly covered her mouth. She didn't mean to say that. She didn't want to say that. This was not something she would normally consider.

She met Glynda's gaze, which was fixed on her sternly; an eerie, yet fierce green glow emanating from them.

"Miss Rose. I cannot believe you would even dare suggest such a thing to me. You should be ashamed. He is your friend. I will never allow that to happen to anyone again."

Tears were starting to form in Ruby's eyes. "I didn't mean to say that." She faced Ren, who looked away from her before their eyes met. "Ren, I didn't mean-"

"I know what you meant." He cut her off abruptly.

Survey room for anything.

There was an awkward silence that befell the room. Ruby took in a deep breath to try and settle some of her nerves before speaking again.

"Let's look around the room for anything that may be useful or interesting." She said halfheartedly.

"I will save you the trouble of searching this room." Glynda said as she walked over to a small safe in the room. It had an electronic keypad on it. "This cabinet holds all of his info about this...Unfortunately, I can't open it for you. It's locked with a complex system-not even Ozpin has the code! It resets every few hours, randomizing and assigning a new 7-digit code. I...I have no idea how he's able to puzzle out the combination every time. He's really something." The professor then moved toward a door near the desk, pointing at it. "Every other book or file in here is unrelated to our situation. Headmaster bedroom is through here. Bed, closet, bathroom-things you when you work all the time and refuse to leave like an idiot." She finished sarcastically. "Apart from the safe, there isn't much of interest here."

Ask King about the cabinet.

Does he have any memories of Ozpin's technique for opening it?

King closed his eye thoughtfully and stood still for a while in deep thought. After a few moments he opened his eye and rubbed his head in slight frustration. "Ｉ'ｍ ｖｅｒｙ ｓｏｒｒｙ, ｂｕｔ Ｉ ｈａｖｅ ｎｏ ｉｄｅａ ｈｏｗ ｉｔ'ｓ ｄｏｎｅ. Ｆｉｇｕｒｉｎｇ ｏｕｔ ａ ｒａｎｄｏｍｌｙ ａｓｓｉｇｎｅｄ 7-ｄｉｇｉｔ ｎｕｍｂｅｒ ｉｎ ｈｉｓ ｈｅａｄ...ｉｔ ｓｅｅｍｓ ｉｍｐｏｓｓｉｂｌｅ."

"Yes...he was...really something." Glynda says with a small smile.

A/N: Thousands of unknown voices speaking all at once in your mind. Sometimes your thoughts just slip out. Poor Rooboo.

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