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Qrow didn't say anything to his sister for a long moment. He did know the answer to his sister's questions, just as she knew the answers to his.

"Sorrell, did your mother give you any way to contact your godmother?"

Sorrell shrugged, tiger ears flicking.

"She might just come find me...but I'm not sure if that'd be good after what Adam did…."

Just as Sorrell said that, there was a firm knock on the door before it effectively was blasted off the hinges.

"Well well, look what we have here…."

Came the mellow voice of Cinder Fall, jolting Sorrell out of his spot against Weiss in surprise, tiger ears flicking rapidly in fear. The quick motion seemed to get Cinder's attention, drawing her gaze to the young boy.

"Hold it, why is my godson here?"

Cinder asked, loading a fireball to throw at Ruby. Raven had already drawn her sword, and was moving slowly to stand between Cinder and the remains of her family.

"Because his mother was murdered and his father brought him to visit me."

Cinder looked over to Sorrell, golden eyes softening ever so slightly.

"Is this true Sorrell? How did it happen?"

Sorrell just whimpered slightly when she lifted him up, hissing ever so slightly when she tried to pat his ears.

"Still don't deserve that honor hm?"

Cinder asked, moving her hand away. The other inhabitants of the room seeming surprised to see a somewhat softer side to the criminal Fall Maiden. What came out of Sorrell next was incredibly out of character and somewhat jarring to hear from such a normally sweet boy.

"Put me DOWN you big meanie! PUT ME DOWN! YOU LIED TO ME! YOU'RE NOT NICE! YOU KILLED BIG SISTER'S FRIENDS!"

He screamed, thrashing. Cinder seemed equally surprised, Raven swooping in to rescue her stepson and cuddle him, patting his ears, with brilliant red eyes narrowed spitefully at Cinder.

"He's never done that before….normally he'll at least let me hold him for a while. And what did he mean I killed his big sister's friends?"

Raven narrowed his eyes.

"Ruby and Yang are his older sisters. Yang is his stepsister and Ruby is his half-sister by blood. They were rather close to Pyrrha Nikos and to Penny Polendina. Both dead by your machinations of I recall."

Cinder's remaining eye widened as she looked at Raven.

"Only one directly and….yeah I get your point. What did he mean when he said I lied to him? I very simply never brought anything work related when I visited."

It was Raven's turn to look somewhat stunned before her aura started to writhe around her again, forming a protective bubble around Sorrell.

"Well it wouldn't be the first time a godparent betrayed him. Adam Taurus killed Sienna. Sorrell saw it."

Cinder's eyes blazed dangerously before she turned to look Ruby in the eye.

"Will you be needing help to bring down Salem?"

Cinder asked, a bitter hatred already being clearly audible in her tone.

"Uh...why the sudden change of void? I'd say heart but I'm not sure you have one."

Qrow asked, his hand on his weapon. Cinder glared at him.

"I do have a heart you dusty old crow. I'm unsure as to why Sienna appointed Taurus as godfather, but Sienna was in fact a friend of mine. I grew up with her in Mistral. She was arguably my only true friend. We stayed in contact. And as for why I'm offering, I know for a fact Hazel was supposed to be watching Taurus and making sure nobody died. I specifically said that nobody was to die. As far as they know it's because I figured Sienna might still have some use, but I really just didn't want this to happen."

Sorrell looked at Cinder, his tiger ears pressed flat to his skull as he glared at her. It would've been threatening on anyone else, but Sorrell just wasn't quite old enough to pose a real threat, and everyone there knew it.

"I'll believe that when I see it Fall."

Qrow responded, only for his sister to cut him off and hold a finger to her lips, watching Sorrell's ears twitch and flick before he called out.

"Neo?"

He asked, watching Yang launch herself out of her seat when Neopolitan appeared right in front of her and bowed to him playfully.

"Nice to see you too Miss Neo."

Neo nodded and turned to look at Cinder, aiming her umbrella at the woman.

"You don't think she should be trusted?"

Sorrell asked, watching Neo's body language. It had even impressed Roman how well Sorrell could understand Neo without having to resort to signs and sign language, though for Neo it did make it easier for her to defend the kid.

She didn't make a sound, instead shaking her head and lifting her umbrella so that the metal point was aimed just between Cinder's eyes. Cinder seemed to understand the threat Neo could pose to her and moved quickly to remove her mask, revealing an empty socket surrounded by burned skin, it almost looked as if somebody had poured molten metal into her eye socket and is had dribbled down her face.

"I have my own reasons to want nothing more to do with Salem. I got myself nearly killed and she was willing to just throw me away after everything. Those burn marks on my cheek? Those are from when Red over there used her powers on me. It melted my eye out of the SOCKET!"

She screamed, coughing almost immediately after. Her throat was still recovering from the onslaught.

Ruby however just covered her mouth, silver eyes widening in terror from the knowledge of what she'd done, and even Neo looked a little green in the face, taking a step away from Ruby.

"I'll help you however I can. I want my revenge on what she's done. I'm sick of being thrown away like garbage until I can serve her uses."

Cinder hissed, replacing her mask.

"And I assure you Miss Politan, the death of Roman Torchwick was not intended. I'd anticipated you both being in Vacuo by the time everything went down."

Neo didn't waver before she stepped towards Sorrell and held up a sign for Cinder to read.

"I still don't trust you you lying snake, but if you can help, I'll let you try. But the second you hurt Sorrell I'm cutting out your other eye myself."

Cinder looked at Neo and back to Sorrell.

"Duly noted. Now, do you have a plan in place or are we going off hope and a prayer? I'd say luck, but with him around, we're screwed."

Cinder pointed out, causing Qrow to nod.

"For once, I agree with her. If we're going off luck, yeah, you're all screwed."

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