RWBY Through Worlds (End)

BC50: Dolor (Raven's Team)--1

The day after the double birthday, Raven spoke to Shine and Wally about her proposed plan to find the pirate/bandit connection.

"This is so exciting," Wally said. "Just like my friends and I."

"Why are you asking us?" Shine's mind was more on Raven's behavior.

"You have an eye for these things. I thought I would run my plan by you," Raven explained.

"Wow," Wally said.

"Not you, really," Raven added meanly.

"Hey, I run this stuff all the time," Wally feigned offense.

"Since we're not here all the time now," Shine said, "I don't know how much I can advise you. But from what you said, you've thought it out, as you usually do. My only caveat is that you should not rely just on your own wits in this case. The Grimm have been unpredictable--it's wiser to expect to be surprised and have to make adjustments. If you go ahead with looking for those scoundrels, do it carefully and don't leave yourselves without an escape route--and not just your Semblance. If all of you got backed into a corner, people could die."

"And you guys didn't survive the gods to just fall because of some lame thieves," Wally piped up. "So don't let them get the drop on you."

Raven nodded. "That makes sense. Easier said than done, however."

"You do have other people who are good at this who you could ask for backup," Shine pointed out. "I'm not sure this is just Argus' problem, or just Menagerie's. They can't really just be targeting your territory."

"I know, but the other kingdoms are less willing to cooperate now that we're not all in immediate danger," Raven said. "The more the other threats decrease, the less they feel they need us."

"A foolish but inevitable turn of events for mankind." Shine rolled her eyes. "As soon as we feel self sufficient, we neglect our allies. It's so frustrating--more so because I catch myself doing the same thing as others."

"It's funny how some people never want to rely on anyone, and others want to way too much," Wally mused.

"We don't encourage that in this militia/base of operations," Raven said.

"That could be partly why they don't cooperate more on a wider scale," Shine said. "The kingdoms want to keep their identities, and I can't blame them for that. But they need each other. There's only 4 of you. There's hundreds of countries in our worlds--a few fighting doesn't ruin the entire globe, usually. You don't have that luxury here. Probably in time you'll have more than the 4 kingdoms, but I wouldn't guess that would be in your lifetimes."

"Can you not say things like that?" Raven balked. "It makes it seem as if you'll live much longer than we will."

Shine and Wally exchanged a look but said nothing. Raven had to wonder if they already thought they would.

Well...given Alicia's life, that wouldn't be out of the question...but it would be so odd for them, wouldn't it?

Raven had the feeling again that they were just spectators in some way to the drama of Remnant, like it was a big show to them. [Lol, she's closer than she knows.]

"On a different note, you'll be at the wedding, right?" Shine changed the subject.

"Of course," Raven said. "I said so before."

"Just double checking that you wouldn't let all this excitement distract you too much," Wally said. "We made that mistake. World drama is hard to push aside long enough to have time to get married."