A fresh new sun burst into the small boxy room that Ruby had slept in for the night while recovering from her long, trecherous journey.

The weak tea coloured wooden floors sparkled as the sunlight reflected in her eyes as she woke up and stretched. The stretch lasted a long time for she was utterly exhausted from the journey to make it to their destination - it felt like she had slept for an eternity. She rubbed her eyes as her vision cleared and she felt more relaxed that she had made it; that her team had finally made it to Mistral.

Ruby yawned loudly and released the covers that she had slept in so she could place her soft toes onto the wooden flooring. She shuffled her way over to the table where her note written from the day before remained, intact, with the small stains of tear drops still visible embossed into the paper.

Suddenly there was a brief knock at the door before she heard a voice from the other side.

"Ruby? Are you awake..can I come in?" came the voice.

Ruby smiled.

"Yes I'm awake."

Then, as the door opened, Jaune made his way through, who was still clad in his Pumpkin Pete hoodie. Infact until today none of the team had any chance to find new clothing, choosing instead to stick with what they had. Now that they had arrvived in Mistral, Ruby had soft thoughts of perhaps going to find attire more suitable to the new area that they had found themselves in.

"Good we were beginning to get worried about you." he said.

"Hm? Wha-wait..ahh! What time is it? I thought I had set an alarm on the clock!"

Ruby dashed over to see that the clock in the room had stopped, showing the hands stuck in position.

"It looks like it got stuck from when we brought my uncle Qrow in here to rest."

"Looks like his bad luck is real after all then." said Jaune.

"Bad luck or not, I've been asleep for ages!" Ruby said, quickly snapping the alarm clock back down on the cube shaped table next to the bed.

"Come on Ruby, let's go find professor Lionheart in Haven."

"Wait, where are Ren and Nora?"

"They both went out early to scout the area. Was Ren's idea and Nora followed him straight away. They asked if I could come wake you. So when you're good to go we can go find them."

Ruby nodded and decided to get changed.

"Well then, let's get ready and head on out of here." she said.

"Yeah.."

"..."

Ruby looked at Jaune with a crooked glance before he realised he was still inside Ruby's room after all.

"OH! Right sorry, you want to get changed and I'm still stood here haha I'll uhh..I'll just be waiting outside then then, hahe..ha..uh." and before Ruby knew it, Jaune had quickly scuttled away backwards out of the room and pulled the door behind him.

Ruby giggled to herself and changed out of her bed clothes and into her red hood. As she was about to leave she glanced back at the note. It felt like it was the right time to send it. So she made the choice to grab it and bring it with her as she left the room to find the others.

As they made their way through the gooey, sap-like leaves and spider webbed foliage on the floor, it didn't take long for Ruby and Jaune to catch up to the sight of the orange haired huntress in training over by the nearby trickling stream of the village. She stood gallantly on top a giant tree stump that overlooked the ravine. Nora had hand hooded her brows as she tried to get a better view of the area but her vision was obscured with all the branches and trees in the distance – Mistral was a very grassy and picture-esque place indeed.

"Aww I can't see much from here, Ren." she said.

She jumped down to stand beside the quiet, brooding ninja as he knelt down towards the water.

"Good then he should be out of sight of predators for now."

Ruby and Jaune got closer as Ren revealed the sight of a small little bird cusped in his hands, it's wing broken from the fall of it's nest nearby. Ren had put a make-shift bandage and splint on the feathers to help it recover.

"Do you think it'll live on it's own Ren?" asked Nora.

"I've done all I can."

"We can't just leave it here though, we should wait to find it's mother." implored Ruby.

"With the nest gone, it's mother would have flown away by now. It will probably never come back for it." Ren replied.

Ruby's expression already soured as she felt the emotion pour over her from the sight of the poor bird.

"Come on guys, I know it's sad but we really need to get a move on to find professor Lionheart." Jaune interrupting. "We have got bigger things to focus on."

Ren gently placed the fallen bird to the side of the stream and covered it the best he could. Out of sight of predators would be the best thing for it until it gave time for it's wing to heal.

Nora placed her hand on Ruby's shoulders and smiled at her.

"Come on leader, let's get over to Haven and speak to the headmaster. We could really use some good news for a change."

Ruby smiled back and all four of them set off towards the nearby sign for Haven.

Nora slowed down to match Ruby's speed as the guy's went ahead and whispered into her ear.

"Psst. Did you send the note yet?"

"Not yet."

"We'll find time, Haven is sure to have a mailbox huh?" she said nudging Ruby in her side.

"Yes I hope so." Ruby replied, just as hopeful as she was when she wrote it for the very first time.