Summer Rose was doing some "gardening" in the forest. It was the school holidays, and Taiyang had taken the children to see his parents. She, in turn, had taken the opportunity to do her favourite walk to the cliff, had got to the middle of the forest, flared her aura and was now having an adrenaline rush tackling the Grimm.

If she was starting again, she might have followed Qrow and used a weapon with a longer reach, but she and Woodcutter had been through a lot and it would feel like a betrayal to change now. Modification was a different matter.

She was losing herself in the fight when suddenly a familiar voice said, "I have your back, Thorn", and the sound of dust being used enthusiastically echoed through the woods. Bother, no doubt the intervention was well intended, but she felt she had been almost there.

There was nothing for it but to finish the battle quickly and then see what Raven wanted to say to her after guilt-tripping her. Raven only called Summer Thorn when she was annoyed or irritated by something she had done.

After the fight, Raven took off the mask and said, "What the frack are you up to, Thorn? Do you want to leave Yang and Ruby without a mother and Taiyang without a mistress?" The woman then winked at her.

Typical Raven, saying something true and then pre-emptively acknowledge her hypocrisy with a joke. As so often before, Summer told herself not to rise to the bait.

Raven then added in a less combative manner, "Seriously, Summer. It's not as though there were any civilians who needed protecting. If you are going to do preventative hunting, get my brother to join in. The two of you together are more or less unstoppable. You only have to whistle, and he'll come panting."

Summer knew that was true on all counts. There was a reason why Qrow and her had often teamed up on missions involving Grimm. There was another reason why it was cruel for her to call on his help. She had felt the same when Taiyang had talked to her about how impossible Raven was.

She sidestepped the point, "You know how paranoid he is about his semblance. He prefers doing missions on his own."

"Well, I'd never take a bullhead with him, but it never went seriously wrong in a fight."

"It nearly did with Team SLVR shortly after you left."

Raven shrugged and clearly didn't want to hear the details. "My point stands. There's a reason Beacon trained us to fight as teams."

Summer couldn't deny that and waited for the next part of the scolding. "Just because some of Aezop's fables were truer than we thought, doesn't mean that they all are."

They'd had this argument before, and Summer didn't want to have it again. She ignored Raven's last remark and said, "Qrow's well. He and Taiyang are going out for a lads' night out with Peter and Bart tomorrow."

Raven harrumphed and said, "Look, Thorn. I have something to tell you, but I don't want you telling anyone else about it."

Summer knew that Raven must have been speaking to one of Salem's minions and had decided she needed to pass it on. It must be something which she thought could be traced back to her if it got out.

"I'll only tell Ozpin."

"I'd prefer it you didn't. If this comes out soon, she'll know I was the source. I don't trust Ozpin's discretion."

Summer was about to protest when Raven said, "Ozpin's bored with living so long. It makes him careless, especially as he hits the reset button when he makes a mistake and dies. He amuses himself by making enigmatic comments which make sense when you know part of the truth. The whole I've made more mistakes than anyone alive bit. Frack it; he got bored 400 years ago and wrote the Aezop fables, and then two hundred years ago, he talked to Ursula Berpdioloo. He'd told us enough of the truth that we worked out some of the Aezop fables were true and that he'd written them. If he says something to Glynda, she will worry away at it and then tell Tindick."

Summer stared at Raven, hoping that she would be more reasonable about it. Problem was that she had a point.

Raven said, "I hope Ruby's still wearing the blue contacts."

So, it was about Silver Eyes. She had to know about that. The thought of Salem coming for Ruby was Summer's biggest fear.

"She is, and I promise. If I can work out a way to discover the truth another way?"

"Understood, provided you're subtle about it. Hide the suggestion with lots of other ones."

"I know the drill." Raven looked at her and then nodded.

"Salem's pet geneticist is "enhancing" people with silver eyes. He says he's already successfully done this more than once."

"Why did he tell you?"

"I captured someone with silver eyes for him. The man had got cold feet about the job offer from one of Salem's dummy corporations and fled to the Badlands."

"Raven!"

"He wasn't one of my people, and if I hadn't done it, the mad professor and Salem's pet psychopathic nutter would have been wandering around the Badlands hunting down the man and picking fights with my people. Besides, if I hadn't offered to help, he wouldn't have told me what he did. No, I didn't ask what the corporation was called or where its lab was."

"But…."

"I've told you before. In my real world, I can't afford to fight her or ask too many questions, and I need her funding. On the whole, she's not a demanding donor. She doesn't feel the need to make me a minion so long as she thinks I'm a pragmatic bitch who causes problems in Mistral."

"Which is close to the truth anyway."

For a moment, Raven looked hurt and then laughed, "And don't you forget it. Still, no man is an island, even though I'm more peninsular than most."

It was an old phrase of Dr Oobleck's which had struck a chord with Team STRQ. It was also true that as far as she knew, Summer was the only person left from the Beacon days whom Raven spoke to.

"OK. You've told me before that it's best if Remnant thinks that you care nothing for your old team or your daughter."

"So long as everyone in Remnant thinks that I only care about my tribe and loot, they'll leave me alone. I'm too hard a problem to deal with easily and not a big enough problem that I have to be dealt with. There's at least one man in Mistral City who, if he had an inkling I got updates from you about Yang and Ruby, would consider kidnapping them and use their safety to try and blackmail me. As it is, he thinks that the risk of getting on the wrong side of Ozpin isn't worth the theoretical benefit, especially as it might just frack me off rather than giving any practical leverage."

"I get it. I don't have to like it, but I get it."

"It's safest for everyone that way." She couldn't say Raven was wrong. Ozpin took a similar view and oddly sympathised with Raven's desertion. He also told Summer not to even hint to Qrow and Taiyang that Raven had good reasons for the choice she had made or to tell Raven that he wasn't that angry.

"So, what did the mad scientist say?"

"He said that he had successfully enhanced a plural number of silver eyed people, that they were still alive, and that Salem intended that they would live a long time."

"Could he have been lying?"

"Of course, that's possible. Still, he was pursuing the man and he's mad rather than evil. It felt more like he was proud that the enhancement had been successful and wanted to boast about it to someone sane."

"I thought that he was into doing things with Grimm."

"I can only tell you what he said. He didn't start with Grimm, according to Fria."

"I hear what you say."

"Is that in the Atlas sense or the Vale sense?"

"I'm not accusing you of lying or saying you are wrong. Nor do I agree with you, but I can't admit it. It's just that I'm not certain you're right, and there's no point in arguing the point."

"About what?"

"You were going to tell me that if he is enhancing the powers of Silver-Eyed people, then they can't be a threat to Salem."

"Nah. I was hoping you would think that for yourself, Thorn. I was going to say that even if the old stories are right that silver-eyed people have superpowers, they aren't going to end this forever war."

"But the Grimm Reaper…."

"Disappeared on a mission fifteen years ago."

"Her body was never found, and the bodies of Salem's strong-arm woman and four assassins were found near where she was last seen."

"So, she was strong enough to kill five humans and survived long enough to limp away and die by herself. Even so, Salem was killing them then, and now she's enhancing them. I'll grant you that the eyes may be able to harm Grimm, but I don't want you betting your life on them being a threat to Salem."

Summer kicked a stone in irritation. "I know. It's just that…." Her voice trailed off. She couldn't tell Raven what Ozpin had told her about the silver eyes, especially as he had also told her not to try and force the power. It was also true that he had told her not to even think of challenging Salem.

"I get it. If you fight a war, it would be good to think you can win it in your lifetime. No wonder Ozpin never tells anyone too much of the truth."

"We've had this argument before. I still think it would be useful to be able to use my eyes against the Grimm."

"Not going to argue with you about that. It's not worth risking dying when you don't have to in order to unlock a power you don't know for certain exists or how powerful it is. Seriously, take Qrow with you and tell him only to intervene if it gets too close for comfort."

"I was doing fine."

"You were into 60/40 territory when I intervened, and that's not sensible. I fight when I have to and when I think I can win easily. It's another reason why I play nice with Salem."

"It's weird you being the cautious one telling me not to take risks."

"I have a tribe who need me alive to keep them safe. You have a family." Being guilt-tripped by Raven was an odd feeling.

"I want them to grow up in a better world than this one."

"And they want to grow up with a mother. What was it Oobleck used to tell us- the perfect is the enemy of the good?"

Raven held her hand up before Summer could respond. "We're not going to settle this now. I'm just asking you to think about what I said. Just tell me about the girls."

Summer supposed that Raven was right that there was no point in arguing further.

"Yang is growing up fast. She's a sort of diabolical cross between you and Taiyang. She's got your temper and his charm, your stubbornness and his talent for mischief. Your looks, his hair."

She showed Raven the latest photographs of the family, including Qrow. Ruby was holding a cardboard version of Harbinger coloured in red crayon.

Raven laughed and said, "Ruby looks like a younger version of you at Beacon. She even hides her face and closes her eyes when photographed."

Summer nodded. Ruby was shy, and Taiyang and Qrow thought it adorable how she hid her face under a cape as much as possible. They told the children that their mother used to do the same. In Summer's case, Taiyang had got them all to wear sunglasses when photos were taken for the Vytal Festival and the Beacon Yearbook. That had made things easier and added to their team's reputation for eccentric arrogance.

Raven had made her point and for ten minutes she discussed Ruby and Yang. Raven seemed to enjoy being told about how the two sisters played together, particularly how protective Yang was of her little sister. Although they were only two school years apart at school, Yang was thirty-three months older than Ruby. Ruby would be among the youngest in her class at school and was small for her age anyway.

Summer sighed. Taiyang had been particularly unhappy on Yang's second birthday, and when comforting him, one thing had led to another.

Raven looked at her. "Summer, can you give me some advice about dealing with idealistic young people?"

That was out of left field. "Sure, but I need more to go on."

Raven looked embarrassed. "I had someone with unlocked aura turn up last week who was worried that there were no hunters or huntresses in the Badlands and wanted to join up."

"Seriously?"

"I'm afraid so. Nice girl but has never slept in a tent before. Luckily, she ran into some of my people who even a Schnee might consider to be rough diamonds, but…" Raven shook her head. The woman had always been cynical about people's motivations and found it hard to fit idealists into her worldview. Well, other than those who used their idealism as a justification for forcing other people to do as they say.

"What have you done so far?"

"Tried to act like Tina the Bandit Queen."

"Remnant, I remember that program." That was a memory she hadn't revisited for a while. The thought of Raven behaving like a TV heroine tickled her funny bone, and she lay on the ground roaring with laughter.

Raven tried to look offended and then joined in. Finally, Summer recovered her decorum and tried to answer seriously.

"Actually, that was a good choice. I can imagine you pulling it off - well, at least the version in the first season before they softened her."

Raven paused, "Look, I also need to recruit medical and technical people who don't mind living in huts and tents."

"What?"

"The Branwen tribe have a proud tradition of fighting and survival, but we are useless at building. It was us against the world. If I want the Branwen protectorate to live on after me, I need to build a society. Remnant, I need civil servants, roads, sewers, factories, farms, trade and taxes. I need to create a fracking government with institutions, and I need to understand how to run it."

Summer managed to avoid laughing. "You've obviously been thinking about this. If you want others who aren't tribe members to buy into it, reverse the reasoning."

"Sorry?"

"We've been speaking for seven years on and off. I know you had no plans beyond saving the tribe and taking revenge on the MBAD when you returned."

"Absolutely. I told myself bish, bash, bosh and back home to deal with teething." Raven looked almost wistful. "Even then, I suspected I was lying to myself."

"You told me that you were sorry but that as you'd broken it, you needed to fix it."

"Well, unleashing the aura of everyone in the Tribe over twelve had been a desperate measure. It was just that I needed to use them as bait and give them a chance to survive before me and the fighters ambushed the Mistral bastards looking to cut off their ears and tails."

If it had been anyone else, Summer would have hugged them at this point.

"I had a thousand Grimm magnets on my hands and had to train them. I also couldn't afford to have them all in one place or even to have a permanent base."

"Why not pretend that what you have been forced to do because of events and logic was the plan all along?"

"Go on."

"Instead of necessity forcing you to make your tribe experts in fighting Grimm, say it was the plan to make them into an elite Local Grimm Defence Force. That the need to feed the tribe meant that you had to give the farmers an incentive to grow a crop surplus by protecting them from Grimm and the other tribes. Instead of logic forcing you to take over the other bandit tribes and then amalgamate them into the Tribe, that was the plan all along."

"Thorn, can you imagine anyone who knew me at Beacon believing me that I did everything for the greater good of the Badlands?"

Summer knew she had to be careful now. "But none of the people you will be dealing with knew you then. You're the woman who came back and saved the Tribe, gave the Mistral armed forces a bloody nose, stopped the tribes' plundering villages, protected them from Grimm and led from the front. You're the Vytal Festival winner who had it all and gave it up to save the people she grew up with. You are Tina, Bandit Queen as far as they are concerned. You aren't the arrogant bitch who delighted in humiliating people."

Raven mimed puking noises and said, "It is true that Mistral has neglected Western Mistral ever since the start of the Great War. It hasn't been that hard to improve things for the people living in the Badlands."

She then looked at Summer suspiciously. "Don't try to tell Yang, Taiyang or Qrow that I am some form of do-gooder. It's best for them all that they think I am a mother who abandoned her child to go and lead a tribe of criminals. Yang should think of you as her real mother. If I am doing the right thing in the Branwen Protectorate, it wasn't on purpose."

"Does it matter what your motives are?"

"I want it to matter to Yang. I don't want her worrying about what made her so repellent a baby that her mother, the hero, left her. She needs to think I am a straight-forward villain. Besides, I would have made an awful mother. I don't have the patience."

Summer tried to keep a straight face, but something must have given her away. No, it was more that Raven was thinking about it herself.

"Don't even think that Vernal is a Yang proxy or proves that I would have been a good mother. A good mother would have comforted her and persuaded her to play nicely with other children. I've taken a traumatised child who unlocked her own aura and encouraged her to be strong and ruthless. The only reason I keep her around me and in my tent is that she's like a wild animal whose first instinct is to prove her dominance. It's not safe to allow her to play with other children. She accepts that I'm her pack leader and just about obeys my main lieutenants if I tell her to."

"But you did save her, and you do feed her."

"She's an investment. In a few years' time, she'll be one of the best fighters in Mistral. No Grimm will be safe from her."

"If you say so. I won't argue with you about a girl I've never met. How about accepting that you're doing some good in Remnant, even if it is for pragmatic reasons? That other people need to believe that you are doing so on purpose. You're not a sadist, after all."

Raven just about accepted that.

Summer thought that was something else that she might accept.

"You do know that you and Qrow were among the first people I knew who didn't treat Faunus differently from humans. You neither assumed that they were inferiors or over-compensated for the guilt."

"I've explained that before. The Tribe divided the world into people who belonged to the tribe and those who didn't. If you were a child of the tribe and showed the right stuff, you were a Branwen. Admittedly, you also had to be tough, but that comes with living in West Mistral and being bandits. It didn't matter if you had extra ears, hooves or a tail if you were a member of the tribe. If you weren't a member of the tribe, it made no difference to your inferiority."

"But you were the only Tribe with a significant number of Faunus in it."

"Qrow must have told you the stories."

"He doesn't like to dwell on the past. He remembers the raiding and the need to be strong."

"He must have talked about the fact that at the time of the Great War, the then leader worked out that we had an inbreeding problem. He dealt with it by "co-opting" men and women from the villages from which we levied tribute. There were a lot of Faunus Villages in the area we controlled."

"I get the picture, but other tribes would have made them slaves."

"I doubt that many of the Faunus mothers and grandmothers were happy when they were first "coopted" into the tribe, but their children and grandchildren are full members of the tribe on birth. Some men were also co-opted, and the same deal applied, even if the men themselves were cooks and dug latrines."

"That sounds very progressive for a bandit tribe."

"The story I've been told is that the then leader had an ear fetish and that many of his cronies copied him. If true, it explains the number of rabbit and cat Faunus members of the Tribe. He wasn't going to have the children of his favourite woman treated as inferior to the rest of the tribe, so he told everyone the score and his cronies went along with it."

"Oh." Summer was going to have to think about that. There were still times when Raven and Qrow's ways of thinking about the world took her by surprise.

Raven was still reminiscing. "That doesn't explain the number of Kangaroo Faunus, but I supposed someone else liked long legs. It didn't hurt that the legs are strong and good in hand-to-hand combat. The Kangaroo Faunus are among our best fighters, and boy, are they fast."

There was a pause and then, "Certainly, Shady's mother made a point of explaining to new arrivals that there was an upside to having been kidnapped."

"Shady's mother?"

"One of my best men. A rabbit Faunus with long ears. His mother was an under-housemaid in a country house the tribe raided forty years ago. If a Faunus maid got pregnant, she was fired without a reference even if the father was one of the men of the house. She was to blame for leading the man on or for being weak. In the Tribe, it was a matter of pride to feed your children and their mother."

To Summer's surprise, Raven sounded angry rather than simply stating the facts. She knew better than to point that out to Raven.

"It doesn't matter what the reason is; the fact that you don't differentiate between humans and Faunus will appeal to many people. Maybe downplay the co-opting, but the fact that you treat it as self-evident will impress idealistic young people."

"If you say so. No, you're right. It's just that the fact that we were integrated meant that other people hate us."

There was another whole can of worms which she wasn't going to touch.

"It's not as though you will get many VSO idealists wandering into bandit country."

"VSO?"

"Voluntary Service Overseas. The Travers Foundation in Vale funds young men and women to work in Vacuo and remoter areas of Vale with the poorer bits of society. Their basic justification is that if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish, he can feed himself for a lifetime."

"Fine. I suppose you are right, though. I don't suppose that the Travers Foundation will want to send nice middle-class children to my neck of the woods?"

"I could ask, but I doubt it. You do have a certain reputation."

"I can imagine. Don't bother asking."

"Seriously, Raven, if you are recruiting people, just change the emphasis so that you're doing something because it is both the right thing to do and it works, rather than stressing that it works."

Something she had said had resonated with Raven. She didn't know what it was, but Raven looked like she was going to wrap up the meeting. There was one question that Summer wanted to ask, but she needed to be careful with how she phrased it. "Do you have a plan for the Branwen Protectorate and how it fits in with the rest of Mistral?"

"I have possibilities in mind, but none of them are practical yet. They rely on Mistral City believing that they need to make a deal with me rather than fight me. At the moment, they just want to ignore me."

That fitted in with something Dr Oobleck had said to her and Qrow. A prediction that Raven Branwen would be expanding her sphere of influence to force Mistral to the table and then negotiate a quasi-autonomous status. He also said Mistral wouldn't want to touch such an offer with the proverbial bargepole as it would set a precedent for Argus. Perhaps she would mention that next time they met.

Raven offered to use her portal to get her within 100 yards of Taiyang's parents' house. She accepted the offer but first insisted on interrogating Raven about her conversations with the runaway and Merlot. If Raven was telling the truth, she could understand why she had taken it at face value.

Raven then opened a portal, and soon Summer was in the forest close to Taiyang's parents' house. She hugged Raven and promised to have some leaflets from the Travers Foundation VSO scheme and Dr Oobleck's latest book next time they met.

She wondered how distracted Raven was as she'd accidentally given away a lot about her evolved semblance. Opening a minuscule portal to check that no one was around had not been something which Raven had been able to do when they were at Beacon. Maybe she had been able to do that but just didn't bother.

She looked at her watch and saw that the family wouldn't be expecting her yet. She decided to give herself some thinking time before joining them. The knowledge that Salem would want to "enhance" Ruby was somehow scarier than her wanting to kill Ruby. She would need time to think about the implications.

She also thought back to the time she had spent with her pregnant best friend, reassuring her that she would be a wonderful mother. Childhood in the Bandit Tribe had been tough, although both twins seemed rather proud of it. They'd terrorised the children around their age when they weren't fighting each other, and stories of how young they were when they'd caught and skinned their first rabbit or caught their first fish were regularly deployed to make the more squeamish amongst their contemporaries avoid them in the dining hall.

Raven had been scared that she wouldn't know how to bring up a baby in a semi-civilised manner. Playing in the woods and independence would be encouraged, but she also wanted her children to play nicely with others. Well, at least be like Taiyang and get on with everybody despite his love of practical jokes.

It had been during Raven's pregnancy when Ozpin had told some of the truth to her, Qrow and Summer. He had flattered them by saying that the truth was something most people found hard to deal with. Indeed, they had all agreed with him that Taiyang would not have been able to handle it. Glynda had been there to confirm Ozpin's story, and Lady Fria had confirmed on the CCT System that what Ozpin was about to tell them was the truth. Ozpin explained that the last time around, Lady Fria was the woman who had kept the walking cane, Long Memory, until he was ready to collect it. A portrait of the last King of Vale carrying the same cane also substantiated the story.

Qrow's view of the world made more sense when Ozpin explained that two immortal humans were promoting the cause of good and evil as proxies for the gods. It gave him a purpose in life, and he also enjoyed being able to turn into a crow. Raven had only been half joking about the dangers of flying in a bullhead with Qrow.

Indeed, one of the main uses of her semblance had been to avoid the rest of the team having to travel with Qrow. They sent him ahead on the bullhead and used Raven's portal to him once he had got to his destination. At least that was a better use of her semblance than crashing Qrow's dates when they got to second or third base.

In Summer's case, she just accepted that was how things were and got ready to do her duty. He'd also separately told her about the legends of the silver-eyed having powers against Grimm. He said that he hadn't seen them but believed them.

Even then, she had wondered why Ozpin had told Raven. He later said that he didn't believe that Qrow could keep a secret from her and that he thought that having a child might cause Raven to be determined to keep it from harm by fighting Salem. Well, that was undoubtedly true for Summer. There was a practical reason: if a mission went wrong, Raven could evacuate herself and at least some of the people with her to whichever of Qrow, Taiyang and Summer weren't with her.

Ozpin hadn't known that Summer had told Raven that her parents had read her bedtime stories. Raven was fascinated that this seemed to be one of Summer's best childhood memories and the one that allowed her to visualize her mother best. This led to Raven asking what stories Summer best remembered being told.

This led her to buy Raven a whole load of books to read during the last three months of pregnancy. The Aezop fables had been among them, as had the Collected Myths and Legends of Ancient Remnant compiled by Oscar Lancelyn-Green and the historical stories written by Ozempic Sutcliffe. Raven hadn't realised before how much the series they'd used to watch at Beacon, "Tina, Bandit Queen", had borrowed from the old books with the original stories all safely out of copyright.

According to Raven the first giveaway had been reading fables and the longer books about The Warrior in the Woods, one of Summer's favourite stories growing up because of the silver eyes. Next, Raven read The Story of The Seasons, which is about the four sisters who were given power by an ancient wizard. They had met Lady Fria, the current Winter Maiden, and knew there were three other maidens. They had first laughed about the coincidence, but Raven started to get very suspicious when she saw how many of the books and stories were written by someone with the letters OZ or OS in their name. Even in The Man With Two Souls, the protagonist was called Oswin, and in the book, the author claimed that it was a tale told to her.

The stories about the Grimm Queen and the Girl In The Tower were what finally caused Raven to put the pieces together. They had confronted Ozpin together, and he had confirmed that he had erred on the side of leaving clues to the truth in some of his past lives.

It had not been a surprise that Raven had resented being told half-truths. She'd assumed that Ozpin's opponent could be killed and would return as a new person. She assumed that it would take at least ten years and probably more than twenty before she had enough power to be a threat. Raven had even considered capturing Salem and imprisoning her.

Learning that Salem's immortality involved coming back in the same body and that she was more powerful than Ozpin had been a shock even before Ozpin confirmed that the Queen of the Grimm story was also based on reality.

Raven had not emotionally understood why Ozpin had given up over 80% of his powers to four sisters. Summer could see why he had. Even on a practical level, splitting his power so that there were four people who could curb-stomp Grimm had helped humanity and the Faunus survive. He'd also said that it reduced the temptation to become an absolute ruler and order people to do what he wanted. This way, he had to work behind the scenes and persuade them to do what was necessary.

Even so, if it hadn't been for the whistleblower who had told Glynda what the MBAD had been doing in the Badlands, Raven would eventually have come around. Summer had accepted long ago that Raven had been faced with a hard call, and she had forgiven Raven long ago.

Summer had also been shocked but had accepted Ozpin's explanation that, in his experience, there was only so much truth people could bear without giving up the fight. In Summer's mind, the trouble was that Ozpin just responded to try and mitigate the effect of Salem's plans. Each year that the Grimm did not overrun Remnant was a cause for celebration for him.

Summer wanted to change the situation, and she hoped that her Silver Eyes would give her a chance to do so. If the stories about them were true, then she could use them to destroy or freeze Grimm. What would happen if she used them on Salem? Could she burn the Grimm out of Salem? If so, would that eliminate her control of the Grimm? Would it reduce her power? She even wondered whether it might help Salem pass for human again. Ozpin had said that it sounded like she had mellowed over the years according to the stories of her henchmen he and his allies had captured over the years.

At first, she had listened to Raven and Ozpin when they had told her that this was a bad idea, but once she had Ruby and Raven had warned her that Salem was looking for Silver-Eyed people, she knew that she wanted to take the risk to protect Ruby. If Salem was scared of Silver-Eyed people, perhaps it was worth the shot.

She decide that it was time to be a mother again and ang the door bell and prepared tpo be hugged by her two daughters.