She ran out perhaps half a kilometer before turning towards the east, and within a minute heard something moving towards her; she jumped upwards, kicking from tree to tree until she found herself on a high branch with good visibility, and Qrow crouched next to her.
"This is a bad idea," Qrow objected before she could even speak. She glared at him, took a moment, and responded.
"We have a duty to perform. No matter if we have the licenses or not, we've already proven ourselves as Huntsmen, but the tribe demands we prove we can defeat Huntsmen as well. And this is a perfectly good opportunity, accidents happen all the time on missions like this..."
"It's a terrible opportunity," Qrow interrupted. "First, they're so trusting that we prove nothing by killing them here. You could probably walk up to Summer, tell her you were going to shoot her with her own weapon, and she'd think it was all a joke until the moment the bullet actually hit her. And even then she'd probably think it was an accident! Second, this is an idiotic time to do it - we don't know what Ozpin has planned, and whatever Tai says, it's probably better that all four of us are together to fight it."
"And third..." he stopped for a moment then looked back up with anger in his eyes. "After all this time, you're still on this? These people are our friends and teammates, and they care about us, even though they shouldn't. You really want to kill them just to show off to the Tribe? Just because Grandmother told you to?"
Outwardly she glared at him, while inwardly her heart skipped a beat. Everything Qrow said was true, and she'd been having the same doubts about the tactical wisdom of this plan. (Even as part of her just wanted to get it OVER WITH already...) And even though she'd trained Qrow over the years by punishing him every time he argued emotion instead of tactics, he still felt strongly enough about this to push back about it now.
She was honest enough with herself to accept that Qrow wasn't the only one who felt this way. But she still didn't like being contradicted, even if she'd been counting on him to do just that.
"They 'care' about us. And that only goes one way, right? You certainly don't 'care' about Tai, do you? You're not staring at him when he thinks you're not watching, not jumping at any chance to get shirtless with him, wrestle with him..."
"That's... it's not..." Qrow blushed and looked down as she continued.
"Of course you don't have those feelings about him! Because you know that it's evil, and you remember what Grandmother said happens to perverts when they die, which of their body parts the Grimm chew on first in the after-realms..."
"Enough!" His voice raised, louder than either of them was comfortable with in a stealth situation like this, but he was clearly enraged by her words. "It's not like that, and Grandmother's a fool! Plus..." he paused, then charged ahead, past truths he'd kept hidden until now. "It... it's not just me, is it? I've seen you looking at Summer, and she's always hugging you, leaning against you... I know she sleeps in your bed some nights, and you're not pushing her out. You can't tell me you don't 'care' about her!" He spat the last words out.
Raven shrugged, but could feel herself blushing as she looked away. "Summer's just a foolish girl. I certainly can't control what she does without ruining her effectiveness as a combat partner. And she's still got a silly crush on you, of all people, can't even see the way you look at Tai! But..." she looked up at Qrow, who was still staring at her angrily.
"But I suppose your arguments have merit. Now's not the right time, and these aren't the right targets. We'll be done with them soon enough, and if Grandmother's waited four years for our first kills, she can wait a little while longer." She nodded, to herself as much as anyone. "Ok, back to Tai's plan. We'll talk more about this later."
Qrow said nothing, just gave one final glare then jumped down from the branch, running back the way he came. Raven took a moment to realize how quickly her own heart was beating, then headed back on track herself, searching for Grimm, focusing only on the simpler tasks of killing literal monsters.