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The expulsion of Cardin Winchester was met with little surprise from his contemporaries.
To most it wasn't a shock, he had not been well liked among his fellows and was looked down upon by many of his upperclassmen, and had notably made enemies with most of the teachers with his poor attitude and sloppy attendance record.
A foolish move if one was going to be spending four years within a fairly tight-knit community.
Indeed most were grateful for his removal, and by extension Max due to the commonly held belief she was largely responsible for the first year's dismissal.
Ruby for her part remained as enamoured with her idol as ever. She and her partner had taken to their duties as first year representatives –which were admittedly generally minor and mainly included helping Goodwitch and helping with the planning for the dance for the upcoming Vytal Festival, with a relative minimum of fuss.
Weiss seemed to be enjoying herself; though there had been some argument with Yang about something to do with doilies that Ruby had managed to catch the tail end of.
Best of all though Ruby had been getting to spend time with her idol during their now semi regular meetings.
She'd even managed to wrangle the older girl into teaching her all the hints and tricks to becoming an awesome Huntress.
So while Weiss was busy arguing about doilies and the proper placement of cutlery Ruby was having the time of her life learning cool stuff like how to make pipe bombs from random stuff lying around the classroom –something not strictly necessary but definitely cool! To learning the best ways to sneak into the kitchens through the school's vents and how best to talk oneself out of trouble if Goodwitch ever caught you doing something funny.
Though there was always a seventy percent chance the last one would fail, but then again it wasGoodwitch.
Weiss had not been particularly enthused about the pipe bomb thing when she'd demonstrated her newfound talent inside their dorm room –ok so maybe she miscalculated it a bit, it wasn't that bad!
"I can't believe you though thought it was good idea to set off a bomb in our room!"
"Hey! It's not like I thought it was going to do that. Hmm, I thought I had the amount right this time..."
"RUBY! Are you even listening!?"
Yes her partner hadn't been too happy with her. It's a good thing she calmed down eventually.
Ever since she'd been strictly forbade from doing anymore impromptu bomb tests in the dorm and only some fast talking had stopped her from landing a detention with Goodwitch.
Beacon might be fairly lenient when it came to leaving craters in the ground but she had a feeling Goodwitch wouldn't have been so forgiving.
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