It was a simple task they had been given: Dispatch of a pack of Beowolves that threatens the farmlands in the north-eastern parts of Vytal. Team RWBY has been dropped there, on their first official mission, but the beasts managed to strike the four Huntresses in training by surprise. Ruby and Weiss are on their own - until they meet someone who wished to be forgotten.

"Preserving the balance is their task, for there is no other right for these monstrosities to exist. Neither beings of light, nor creatures of darkness, they are lost between." - from 'Children of the Black Blood', a fantasy novel in Blake Beladonna's collection. Every fantasy has a connection to the real world, but team RWBY never suspected this quote to be that literal.

She was awake. She was walking, breathing. Her breath was heavy though, while it took strength from her soul to do so… To breathe. It was almost all she managed to hear. And it was fine. She did not wish to hear anything else. Nothing else mattered.