Chapter 48: Tipping Point

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It is a cloudy day, Team RNNJR is following a mossy stone tile path through the wilderness.

While walking, Nora stretches her arms up wide.

Nora: Another day, another adventure!

Beside her, Jaune reads a map while Ruby, Pyrrha and Ren continue alongside them.

Ruby: What's on the agenda today?

Jaune: Walking!

Nora: With a side of...?

Ren: Walking.

Ruby: *Sighs* Haven is a lot farther away than I thought.

Pyrrha: Uuh Ruby? How long did you think this journey was going to take?

Ruby: I don't know! I grew up in a small area; I've never been this far away from home!

Jaune: Right but... how long?

Ruby: Maybe like, uh... two weeks?

Jaune looks up from the map to look at her, shocked!

Jaune: What?!

Ruby: Okay, fine! Three or something!

She looks down not making eye contact.

Ruby: Look, whatever.

Ruby looks up again after a beat and notices something ahead.

Ruby: Hey, what's that?

Nora jumps onto a slightly fallen post of a fence to get a closer look at a wall and building ahead.

Jaune: That's... strange.

He checks his map.

Jaune: I didn't think we'd be hitting another village for a few days.

Nora: Are those buildings... damaged?

Jaune: We should search for survivors!

Jaune drops the map and all of them went running into the village, with Nora leaping onto the wall and to a rooftop from there. They discover the town to be empty. Ruby lifts a fallen plank of wood to find only plant outgrowth underneath.

Ruby: Anything?

Nora: Nothing over here!

Pyrrha: None here!

Jaune: No one over here, either!

Ren: It almost seems like... the town was abandoned.

Ruby looks around the place, feeling unease in the wind.

Nora: Hey, I think I found something!

Ruby turns and rushes over. Jaune Nora, Pyrrha and Ren are looking at a town sign. Nora moves the leaves growing over it to the side to read what it says.

Nora: Oniyuri? Never heard of it.

Jaune: Me neither.

Ren: I have.

Pyrrha: Same here..

The other three look at them, surprise on Nora and Ruby's faces.

Pyrrha: This place... you could  say it's one of Anima's great tragedies ever fallen... I heard stories of this place.. to how it came to be...

She eyes the buildings around..

Ren: Yes, you might think of it as Anima's Mountain Glenn, had it never been completed. Years ago, the richest members of Mistral were unhappy with how the Kingdom was being run.

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