[Raven ]
Let's be honest she wasn't fit to be a mother, hell not even the wife of a common person.
Sure she tried to hurt the guy she had woken up with but she never did try to kill him, despite anything he may have said.
She managed to track Mark and had finally decided to hear his side of the story when she ended up being caught by a group of knights, the Knights of Vale, who lived up to their reputation.
How they managed t capture her in the blink of an eye was a mystery to her, and she was there, hell she was the one that they had captured.
yet they never bothered to take her into custody, instead, they brought her here, to the Arc house, she could escape at any moment, but she just needed a second.
unfortunately, a second was something severely lacking in.
The women of the house were all keeping an eye on her, especially the two eldest.
It was odd, she had grown up in a tent and lived a life that contradicted any sense of comfort the people in this mansion were so used to, hell even her time in Beacon when she was younger made her feel uncomfortable, but she could at the very least deal with it.
Now, however, she felt trapped in more ways than one.
The elder's presence was everywhere and her earlier attempt to threaten him and his granddaughters, was met with the Arc Falies semblance at full display, granted each girl varied in skill and ability, but it was the old man that made her stop and reconsider fighting her way out of this.
Now she found herself here sitting at the table drinking tea, with her prison guard.
"I want weapons and protection for everyone in the came and myself," she said to the elder who happily drank his tea
"Okay, while you are under my house protection you have it" he immediately answered her, before his granddaughter poured more tea for him.
"Not just that food - medicine and things we can use to build houses with" she continued but stopped when one of the girls placed a pencil and notebook in front of her
'Write your needs down, as long as you are under my protection you and those bandits will have what you need" the old man said before he took another drink and finished his tea
"However the moment you leave, not just this house, but Mark as well as the moment that protection is gone," he said to her.
It didn't matter they were bandits people that didn't buy what they needed they took it by force, she could use the old man and her drunken mistake for the moment, then leave without a care in the world.
One of the girls whispered something to the old man who smiled.
'Before you decide to leave, please look out the window" the old man told her
Raven felt her blood run cold, as she saw her daughter Yang and her cousin, no they had been raised as sisters being escorted into the mansion.
"Your daughter married my grandson's brother, I belie his name is Ren, making her an Arc"
"Why wouldn't I protect her and her sister," he said to her
"Tell me, Maiden of Spring, what do you think is going on?" the Arc elder asked her
More political games" she said to the old man
'No, this goes much deeper, your daughter was simply an unexpected variable, one that led me, led us to you" he said to her
'its unfortunate, but my son and my grandson are my sacrifices, to either stop her, stop them"
Raven listened to the old ma speak and her attention immediately turned towards the television and the live video.
"You set them up, to be on a train that was headed into the Grimm lands," she said to the old man
"Grandpa," the girls surrounding them said all at once, but the old man silenced them
"Sacrifices have to be made, even if that means our families semblance dies and only the ones capable of wielding a weaker version of it are my granddaughters," he said before pointing at the screen
Nicholas has sacrificed his own grandson, someone that doesn't even have his hora unlocked, just having him on the train is a death sentence he said before pointing at Ren
"That boy is the grandson of my old teammate, and Mark I raised him as my own son"
"They are the last of their blood, their families can not produce another male child, that is the price of our semblance, we inherit it and with each generation, it grows stronger"
"Yet we can only produce one male, the rest are female regardless of our attempts to breed another male with several other women, just one and I sacrificed them all," he said to her
"What's going on?" Raven asked the od man who took out a scroll and handed it to her
"She's moving" was his only answer as the images of destroyed villages and settlements that were barely set up were shown to her, normally this wasn't out of the ordinary, but it was the time that they had all been destroyed.
All of the newly settled lands had been attacked all at once.
"What about everyone else, trade agreements are already made and peoples heads are turning?" she said to him
'What about it, trade will continue even if they all go their separate ways, sure some reputations will be put in question but those can be rebuilt in time"
"It better to see what rats come out before they have the chance to chew away at the ropes holding everything together"
"It's a good thing that those ropes have been gathered in one spot, don't you agree" he said to her as one of the knights gave her back her sword
"Choose, leave - kill me or stay and play the part of an unwilling wife or try to get close to the daughter you abandoned"