Weiss sank into the darkness, it was cold and suffocating, it felt like being immersed in running water, as if the current was dragging her and hitting against the rocks of a river, an icy liquid slowly invaded her lungs...
The hunter opened her eyes and found herself in a terrible situation, she was being dragged by the water that repeatedly threw her against rocks at the bottom of the water body, her aura was being hit repeatedly and her head was spinning.
Her senses were completely confused and worse, it was the breathed water that had entered her lungs while she was unconscious.
Weiss gritted her teeth, she didn't have much time, with impressive agility, she did an underwater somersault and planted her feet on the river floor, thus stopping being carried away by the strong current and then finding the surface and with all the force of her legs leapt swimming into the light, fiercely fighting the current.
She was tired and on edge with literally water in her lungs, it was a miracle she was still conscious.
Unfortunately she wasn't alone, suddenly a strong blow hit her right in the region of her belly, making her spit water from her lungs, she was barely breathing, she was one step away from drowning and something had attacked her.
The huntress, instinctively punched the nose of the thing that had caught her in a bite that had all her twist inside the creature's mouth, the blow was strong enough to make the creature drop and taking the opportunity, Weiss delivered a powerful kick that launched the creature away, once the Ice Queen got out of this situation she would appreciate the unarmed combat lessons Yang had forced her to learn.
The girl swam to the surface of the river and spit the last of the water out of her lungs and quickly began to suck all the air she could into her lungs, she was on the brink of death, at that moment the hunter could only breathe, she still she hadn't noticed the lack of her beloved weapon or the bright moon above her head in the night sky as if watching her or even the current that pulled her back in full force.
A fin emerged from the water and behind Weiss's back began to approach, when a meter from the girl a huge mouth appeared, threatening to swallow her head whole, there was a red mark on the pointed nose of the sea beast.
At the last moment the girl turned to the beast, instinctively using her hands to keep the jaw from closing over her head, which used the thing's monstrous teeth to keep its mouth from closing, if not for what was left of its aura, the huge teeth would have ripped through her hands and made her bleed.
"What the fuck is this?!" she surprisingly managed to scream, a damn shark with twenty eyes glared at her angrily.
Disaster Level: Demon, Bull River Shark.
While Weiss was concentrating on not getting snapped, she didn't notice the end of the river that led to an 80-meter drop into a waterfall that flowed into a huge lake.
Waterfalls are noisy, but when you're fighting a hungry shark, you tend to miss certain things.
The Ex-Heiress and the beast were falling the next moment, but there was one thing that set the two apart, Schnee knew how to fall, the shark didn't, with impressive mastery, the Huntress activated her visage and Glyph platforms appeared in the air and with great skill Weiss finally made it to dry land, making his way back to the top of the waterfall and landing on dry land beside the 80-meter drop.
The girl saw the bizarre creature fall into the lake, she was surprised to have been attacked by a monster that looked like it came from a low quality sci-fi movie, but what made her even more surprised was the huge jaw that emerged from the lake. that quickly swallowed the freaky shark that had attacked her, nature certainly had a peculiar sense of humor.
She stared at the lake, waiting for the monstrosity that had just engulfed the shark to emerge and attack her, but for several minutes, nothing really happened, Schnee sighed and looked at the moon that was definitely not broken like it was in her world.
"Um... I thought it was just a dream... How is that possible?", a thought crossed Schnee's head, she smiled, 'If I'm alive Ruby and the others are too!', the smile disappeared, 'Penny didn't survive... We failed... I failed.'.
It was a lot of information to process, the hunter wanted to scream in rage and pain, but she couldn't do that, she didn't have that luxury. She'd made a deal with… Her grandfather? In order to save your friends and gain power to protect them from Salem.
She knew it sounded too good to be true, but her 'grandfather' had really taken her to another world and now she had to be "Baptized?" she muttered, to gain power to protect her friends.
"By the way, where are they?" If she who had fallen into the abyss had been transported to this universe, then so would they, right? Or maybe they're back in Remnant?
She looked at the bright moon in the sky, and suddenly she knew that they were in the same world as she was, but that they hadn't fallen into the same place... How Weiss knew this, she herself had no idea, but the girl realized that she knew. as soon as he had faced the untouched moon of that other world.
"I need to find them as soon as possible", her conviction strengthened, her dream grandfather's words echoing in her mind, 'A Schnee never falls, he recovers, learns and strengthens', she repeated like a mantra in your head.
She was ready to be baptized, though she didn't know exactly what that meant.
Schnee then realized something very important, slowly her hand went to her waist looking for a very important object, she didn't find it anywhere, 'Where's my Myrtenaster?!' she despaired and started to look around the room. searching for her beloved weapon that she herself had custom-built to suit the Ex-Heiress' abilities.
His despair was interrupted by a mighty roar.
She slowly turned towards the forest that was behind her, her only source of light being the moon that floated in the sky, she faced the dark forest, something monstrous inhabited that dark forest, Weiss could feel sinister eyes watching her.
Weiss let out a silent sigh, the girl's heart was beating fiercely pumping blood at full speed through her tiny body, her lungs were also on edge and her aura had been destroyed over an hour ago.
The Ice Queen was trying to calm her nerves, she was hiding in a small hole that barely had room for herself, barely noticeable outside, well away from the sunlight.
Her clothes were reduced to rags mended with things she had found and she had bruises and scratches all over her body, with even a piece of spear impaled on her left shoulder, being covered in blood from both her and those thinking creatures. that she was an easy target.
"Shit… This is going FROM BAD TO WORSE", she had been trapped in that hellish place for exactly 6 days, a place where the law of survival reigned, where the strongest ate the weakest without a single iota of remorse, everything in that place he wanted to turn it into his meal or worse...
She herself had to adhere to this rule as opportunities to get food didn't come often, 'Even the plants were bloodthirsty killer predators'.
But on the bright side, she learned a few things... unfortunately the hard way.
The first thing was that Grimms didn't exist here, so she didn't need to be afraid of being attacked for emitting bad emotions, which was a great thing.
The second thing was that anything could be a monster, ANYTHING AT ALL! From direwolves to even things as illogical as the concept of Truth. 'How the hell can a concept turn into a monster?'.
The third thing she discovered was that many of these creatures were intelligent, even being able to speak (a thing these beings loved to do), Weiss wanted to hit her head on a tree because of the amount of speech she was forced to listen to, at least it gave her opportunities to escape.
The fourth thing was that not everything wanted to eat her, which could apparently seem like a good thing, was actually horrible, because while not everything wanted to devour her, what didn't fall into this category wanted to torture her, kill her for fun. , turn her into a slave, prove that she was an insignificant human among other things.
The fifth thing was that she was stranded on an island that had an active volcano, which was thousands of miles from any civilization with an ocean even more dangerous than the island itself.
The sixth thing was that there was a ranking system that smart monsters used to rank their strength which was apparently also used on the mainland, coming from such a 'Hero Association', separating monsters into 4 ranks: Wolf, Tiger, Demon and Dragon, she herself was classified by many of these beings as a Demon Disaster Level.
The seventh thing was that just because you found a creature of the same rank as you didn't mean that monster couldn't turn you to mincemeat in the blink of an eye, she kind of got lucky, as when she found herself in such a situation, a monster level Dragon attacked and ate its attacker, giving Weiss the opportunity to hide.
The last thing was that today Weiss finally learned how to make fire without the use of dust and it only took 5 days of her trying to set fire to a pile of dry twigs and leaves with a couple of rocks, 'I finally won't need to use someone's fire. monster to bake my food'.
There were other things too, but at the time, those things weren't that important.
She looked at the piece of spear stuck to her shoulder, if she took that weapon out of there, she would start to lose a lot of blood, so at that moment it wasn't a good idea, especially when her aura still hadn't returned.
Weiss then looked out of the hole where she was hiding, "Human! You can go out! I promise I won't tear you to shreds!", an inhuman voice sounded about twenty meters from where the girl was hiding, "No need to be afraid! I forgive you for cutting my hand! Now show up so we can talk!" an obvious lie that Schnee would not fall.
Normally under ideal conditions, she would chop that freak out in 2 minutes, but in her current state, without her trusty Myrtenaster in hand, killing that asshole would be too exhausting, she'd be defenseless to anyone after the fight, to the point of up to a Level Wolf can kill her.
It was funny how some monsters from that place could even rip a maiden like paper, if one of these creatures that are on top appeared in their world, humanity would be in serious trouble.
Suddenly a roar cut through Weiss's train of thought and then she heard a scream of pure horror, from what she assumed was the monster she had hidden in and then the tense silence.
The girl waited for some time, silence still hovered, even after long 40 minutes, 'I think I can leave now...'.
The girl risked a glance out of the small hiding place and saw only a stain of blue blood on a certain tree several dozen meters away, 'I sure won't go near that tree...', the chances of having been a creature. in passing to kill the monster that was behind her was high, but the possibility of the responsible having been that tree still existed.
Weiss ventured out of hiding and looked around, noticing giant footprints near the bloodstain, the probability that it had been a passing creature had increased, but that wasn't why she would approach the tree in question.
She also had no intention of going in the same direction as the footprints, so she started limping in the opposite direction, her senses being on high alert, paying attention to every detail, every tree, every pebble, every funny sound or smell.
And then with quick reflexes, she dodged a smelly brown projectile, 'Disgusting', she knew exactly what the projectile was and who had thrown it at her.
His eyes fell right on the three-armed, vine-tailed chimpanzee with glowing eyes and a mischievous grin on his face.
Disaster Level: Tiger, Chaos Chimpanzee.
The veins on Schnee's forehead bulged and her face turned red to show her anger, 'I'll still turn you into roast beef, you little cretin', the monkey laughed, his hand smeared with feces.
The little demon was making her life hell, he was smart and knew he would lose in an instant if he tried to attack her directly so he kept trying to irritate her to make her chase him and drag her into a trap, the little monster often set traps for Schnee, she managed to avoid most of them, but sometimes she ends up falling, the monster that had chased her earlier was the result of one of those traps.
Under normal circumstances, Weiss would just rule out any obscene gestures or name-calling because of her upbringing Atlas and her being above this type of behavior, but that monkey had completely upset her, any Schnee's composure had long since been abandoned in favor of survive on that island of nightmares.
The girl raised both her hands and made obscene gestures with both and then let out curses that would make even Yang blush for five consecutive minutes.
The monkey grinned teasingly when Schnee finished, turned around and started slapping his own ass in tease.
'That son of a bitch...', she let out a huff and started to take an alternate path far away from the monkey, 'When I get my hands on his neck...'.
She continued her way to a half-hidden cave, and went to a reasonably sized stone and lifted it, revealing some things she had collected during her time in that place cursed by Oum.
'It seems that his stories had some basis in the end... It's almost unbelievable that this turned out to be useful', she sighed, ignoring the pains of accumulating wounds and after her wounds were partially treated with herbs found in the forest, she quickly made a bonfire, it was time for the monkey to become lunch...
She had a plan to get rid of the monkey.
She faced the exit of the cave, while treating her wounds as best she could, the normal thing was to let her aura recover these small injuries when she returned, but she being in a place where her aura was regularly destroyed by bloodthirsty monsters, you couldn't count on her aura to heal all her wounds, that's why she was treating her wounds, 'And to think that one day, I'd appreciate Professor Port's tendency to tell his 'incredible stories' of how he grandly survived in a forest full of Grimms alone with just a pencil.
The white haired girl had her back to the cave exit, an improvised bonfire warmed her while her aura recovered, a few meters behind her back were some supplies she had collected, a handful of berries, herbs for medicinal use , some vine, some jewelry that Weiss somehow managed to keep, and a sharp-edged stone big enough to kill a human.
Weiss was sitting with her eyes closed and muscles relaxed, but in her hand was a thick, strong vine that was hidden in the shadows, the vine was taut and slinking furtively with the cavern ceiling.
She had to be patient like a fisherman for her trap to work, for several minutes it was just her and the crackling sound of the fire, but that wouldn't last forever, as barely perceptible silent footsteps began to echo through the cavern.
An almost invisible smile appeared on Schnee's face, she slightly opened her good eye, looking at the reflection of a strategically placed puddle of water, it was possible to observe a shadowy figure hidden by the smoke of the fire by the reflection of the puddle, the figure had the size right to equate to the damn monkey.
And it was just a few meters from the trap's action area, slowly approaching, 'It even looks like the monkey lost some neurons approaching so carelessly, better for me', the figure hidden by the dark of night stops a few centimeters from the handful of berries and began to smell them.
As long as Weiss had put up with the monkey monsters, some of his pranks were the same, like for example... Every time Weiss slept or turned his back on his things the little monster would go and steal his supplies, and the worst, he had the gall to do this only when she was around as a means of teasing her and making her chase him into some trap.
But this time he was the one falling into her trap.
By reflection, Weiss could determine that the figure had stopped right in the center of the trap, Schnee grinned, 'idiot', she let go of the vine and due to the action of gravity a huge rock bigger than a Bear fell from the cave ceiling hitting the full monster.
The huntress quickly rose to her feet, a glyph appearing at her side that summoned a scaled-down version of the Arma Gigas sword. She knew that the stone itself wouldn't be enough to kill the monster, but it would be enough to give her the opportunity to cut the monkey in half.
And while the dust was raised, with her summoned sword, she slashed at the monster, but to the girl's surprise, the sword made only a miserable scratch.
A bestial roar sounded rocking the cave and blowing away the dust revealing that the rock that was bigger than a Bear had been pulverized, Weiss's face drained of color and she looked at the monster that was certainly not the ape.
DISASTER LEVEL: DEMON, KOMODO BUFFALO.
An ape-like tall buffalo lay in front of the Schnee, its bloodthirsty red eyes, reptile scales formed a strong armor that protected its body and two pairs of translucent horns, this was a natural species of the place, usually having a neutral behavior, not attacking unless provoked or very close to their young, herbivores whose favorite food was a green, prickly wild fruit that were not fit for human consumption.
Weiss noticed that the cave floor was littered with these half-chewed fruits, arranged in a trail to his trap, out of the corner of his eye he could see the monkey sticking out its tongue outside the cave.
"Maldit Monkey-", the buffalo, incredibly agile for a creature of his size, turned towards her and swiftly charged, hitting her squarely through the cave wall, launching her straight into the forest, she was thrown so hard that it knocked three trees down. in the process, one hit and his aura had already dropped.
The Schnee spat out a handful of blood as she stood up, "I'm still going to kill that bastard," she gritted her teeth as she watched the monster approach her, its horns glowing like the sunrise, lighting up the moonless night.
An energy shot was launched at Weiss, an attack so fast that it broke the sound barrier, crossing 100 meters in just 324 Microseconds, the Former Heiress deftly dodged the attack that had just over 644 Terajoules of concentrated energy.
If the attack grazed Weiss, she would be completely dead, this wasn't a monster Schnee could choose to face, she swallowed, summoning a Beowolf and a Nevermore and ordering them both to distract the monster, she ran.
The Huntress listened to the brief clash of her summons against the scaly buffalo, it wasn't hard to tell which side had been victorious, especially since the beast had started a chase soon after.
"Shit, that was completely useless, it wasn't even worth summoning them", it was possible to hear the monster slowly approaching the hunter, the only reason she had survived the first hit was her aura, tears threatened to fall, adrenaline was coursing through the hunter. her body and fear squeezed her heart.
She underestimated the monkey's intelligence and now she was paying the price for it, running from death once again, if she kept this up she would die... She thought of her family, her friends... In Ruby, 'I can't die. still! Not until I'm sure they're safe!'
It was possible to see a cliff in the distance, as she ran, trying to get away from the monster, she had seen other underdogs running away from these relentless bulls, running in a zigzag or trying to do too many maneuvers would lead to a straight ticket to death as Weiss had learned by watching. those monstrous Bulls trampling the fools or unlucky ones who crossed their path, but continuing to run in a straight line was just postponing death and trying to use your Glyphs to flee through the air, would leave you exposed to the death ray that that monster shot through its horns.
She could try to jump off the cliff, but she knew what was under that specific cliff... Even more certain death at the hands of monsters even more dangerous and cruel than the one that was chasing her at that very moment...
"Sometimes the option that seems to be the most suicidal is the solution." Arriving just a couple of dozen meters from the precipice she stopped and turned to the bull.
"I will survive and I will find my friends! AND YOU WILL NOT STOP ME!" she yelled in defiance at the bull who responded with a fierce roar, coming within feet of the hunter instantly.
With a quick movement Weiss lowers himself at the last moment, staying level with the ground, well below the unstoppable charge of the bull, between the paws of the ferocious creature, which tried to stop its charge, taking tons of earth with it if it continued like this. the monster would stop a few feet from the edge of the cliff.
Weiss quickly got up and charged towards the skidding monster and, taking the opportunity, summoned the Giga Weapon sword and slashed at the monster's rear with all his might.
It was possible to hear the crackling of the bones of the girl's body with the force used, Snow White felt the bones of both her arms shatter, this amount of damage would not be healed anytime soon.
The blow sent the Bull over the edge into what Schnee called the valley of death, the monster roared in rage, swiftly maneuvering through the air and pointing its glowing horns at the huntress.
"For the love of Oum", the energy shot was launched from the horn towards the hunter who didn't even have time to process the pain of her two broken arms and had to move to dodge the trajectory of the blow.
The good part was that she dodged the shot, the bad part was that the shock wave slammed her into a rock so hard that it cracked the rock in several places and pushed both the hunter and the several-ton rock across. several meters, stopping only when it hits the roots of a nearby tree.
Just like the previous attack that had made a path through the land vaporizing earth and trees, plus a powerful shock wave that had toppled several dozen of these strong and resistant trees...
The Chaos Chimpanzee arrived on the scene after a few minutes, finding the trail of destruction with ease and finally finding prey that was stronger than himself, that intelligent monster had once tasted human flesh on a rare opportunity and had become addicted to the taste. , but unfortunately for him there were no humans in his territory, not even when he had ventured far beyond.
So when he discovered the existence of a human, his mouth watered and he prepared to hunt her down, but he discovered from watching her slaughter three Tier Tier Threats in an instant that he couldn't obtain her flesh by direct methods. So he's been dragging her through carefully planned traps for several days.
Finally her tricks had paid off, the human lay unconscious with her back to a broken rock, blood was flowing from her forehead and a horrible bruise had painted both of her arms.
Easy prey, with the big pointed rock she had placed in the trap she planned for the monster, the Chimpanzee calmly approached the unconscious girl, there was a maniacal smile on her face.
The Moon shone in the sky illuminating the scene as it had always been there, even when a few minutes ago it had not been high in the night sky.
The monster raised the large stone that was in its hands, ready to hit the hunter's head and just as it was ready to descend the attack against the human's skull, a pair of legs quickly captured its neck choking the monster, who let go. his gun and put his hands in an attempt to free himself from the grip.
"I got you you unfortunate ape..." Weiss muttered, while staring the monkey in the eye with a sinister expression, "I said I'd break your neck."
And with a movement faster than the monster's eyes could follow, Schnee's strong legs turned the monster's neck 180 degrees.
A smug smile crept across the girl's face as she watched the creature's body fall lifeless to the ground, before unconsciousness finally caught up with her.
Darkness took over his vision...
Beacon Academy, the most renowned hunting school in all of Remnant was in ruins, the fire burning the place with a voracity that eclipsed even the Grimms who bathed in the blood of the innocent and howled at the broken moon in bloodlust, members of the White Fang was working together with the black beasts to take the lives of the unfortunate.
It was so hot... Weiss felt herself on fire in that hellish landscape, taking one step at a time, walking through the many corpses that decorated that place, the girl tried to scream, but her voice didn't come out of her throat, she wanted to run, but her legs wouldn't obey her, she wanted to fight and stop the monsters of the night, but fear trapped her in a torturous cage.
Familiar faces began to emerge among the corpses, she walked to the exit of that hellish place, finally reaching the open air, a bad decision.
Pyrrha was staring at her with dead eyes, fire arrows were all over her body making her look like a damn porcupine, dried blood was smeared over her body and horrible burn marks stained her skin, the redhead opened her mouth to speak , another horrible sound of gurgling blood was emitted, the arrow that pierced her throat glowed horribly and then the girl began to turn to ash that scattered with the wind.
It was so hot… Weiss continued walking.
Winter, Whitley and Klein were kneeling on the ground, Winter was protectively over the two of them, using her body as a shield of flesh, wounds were strewn across the three of them to the point that none of them had the strength to get up, yet Winter used everything she could. who had to protect them, while Willow watched the scene with disinterest and while taking small sips from her wine glass... Tyrian slowly approached the three of them, a wicked smile plastered on his face and with a single blow three heads flew, the serial killer then turned to Weiss and grinned mockingly.
Snow White was hyperventilating, but still continued her walk through the ruins of dreams.
Nora fiercely struggled, tears in her angry eyes, lightning scars garnished in combination with an electrifying aura, fighting like a Berserker against an endless horde of Grimms, if hammer smashed and smashed, Weiss watched the battle helplessly, her body still couldn't respond , the Valkyrie was slowly overpowered by the horde until in a clash with a Taijitu, a serpent with one side white and the other black, blood spattered as the girl's arm was brutally ripped off, but this did not stop the Valkyrie's insatiable fury that continued. to attack, causing both the Grimm serpent and itself to perish, Grimm's creatures swiftly surrounded his dead body and began feasting on his flesh, it was possible to hear the flesh tearing and bones breaking...
Weiss vomited, not an ordinary vomit, but a black liquid that quickly turned into more Grimms that soon after appeared joined the killing.
Jaune was covered in blood but not his, Penny was on the ground a few meters from the boy who was looking at his bloodied hands in horror, the blonde screamed in agony as the flames reached him and consumed him alive like a prophecy irreversible.
Weiss wanted to cover her ears, but her hands were unresponsive and she resumed her leisurely walk through death and destruction, passing her friends and acquaintances.
Blake fiercely defended himself from Grimms and White Fang members, with Adam Taurus himself watching her from afar, the cat slowly but surely was overpowered by the attackers, being restrained, Weiss roared internally, using all his strength to move, Adam , slowly approached the cat with his weapon drawn, Blake fought with all his might for freedom, but the members of the White Fang held her in an iron grip, the Bull raised his blade and decapitated her, her flying head falling to her feet. Schnee.
A mixture of bad feelings squeezed the girl's heart, who ignored the scene and continued on her way.
Yang was fighting a different threat, Atlas' own army attacked her trying to subdue the blonde who was punching and shooting fiercely like an uncontrolled Dragon, Ironwood watched that while sending more troops to assassinate Xiao Long, like the others before her, the girl fell, his robotic arm in pieces, his other arm twisted at terrible angles, bullet holes were all over his torso and even though a look of uncontrolled anger and fierce determination was on his face, Ironwood called his army and turned, leaving the girl to die. Yang then glared at Weiss with an even more furious expression than he had faced Ironwood before, Weiss watched helplessly as three bears slowly approached the blonde.
She turned away, looking away, not wanting to see the blonde's end.
Of all the visions, this one was definitely the worst, there were 4 figures in all, three surrounding a fourth... A girl in red that Weiss recognized well, Ruby Rose, her best friend, her leader, her heart... knee and just behind three figures surrounded her, there was Neopolitan who was on Ruby's left, a sadistic smile on her face, who was distractedly playing with a familiar silver eye... Ruby had blood on her face, one eye was missing with only a void bloody in place, to her right was a familiar Grimm, The Hound who absently chewed on one leg as if it were a toy... Ruby was supported by just one knee, on her other leg was a disturbing bloody stump and just behind her was Cinder who absently played with a little fire… Ruby's clothes were ripped, her exposed skin covered in third-degree burns.
Weiss internally writhed, fury and hate danced in sync in her chest, the Ice Queen used every ounce of strength and will to move towards Ruby, she would save her leader no matter the cost...
The damn trio stared at her, as if waiting for her to get to them, Weiss wanted to rip them to shreds... Weiss would hear them begging for death, she would save Ruby.
The worst thing about it was Ruby's dead gaze, even though she wasn't dead and was still breathing, that single eye was disturbing, the purity and joy that once graced Weiss were now replaced by apathy, bitterness and sadness.
But to the Ice Queen's surprise, when she finally got to them, her body did something entirely unexpected, she slowly lowered herself to Ruby's eye level and with her hand lifting her chin until she made the girl look into her eyes and then Weiss saw...
In the reflection of Ruby's one eye was Weiss, but Schnee wasn't normal, it was like a disturbing mixture of herself and Salem, as if they were both the same person...
"You'll be a great addition…" Weiss snapped.
Weiss woke up, quickly and silently sitting up, tears streaming down his face, the pain in his arms was overshadowed by the pain in his chest.
"You woke up… Hey! Don't use your arms for support, they are still broken", a new voice caught Weiss' attention, she looked up and saw that there was a boy who was around twelve years old, a black wolf with reddish spots sleeping beside him and then she noticed a few things, like the fact that her arms were attached to a splint, the fact that there was a fire dangerously close to her, the fact that she was on a bed of furs and the ceiling was about four feet high.
Weiss looked at the boy again, "Who are you?"