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Ruby woke up with her cheek pressed against a cold floor, feeling rather disoriented as her blurred vision started to clear. Where was she? It looked like a cell. What had she been doing before this moment? She’d been fighting... there were a lot of Grimm... Blake went down and she told Weiss to stay behind to cover her while she and Yang went on ahead. And then after... something went wrong and she got split up from her sister. It was hard to remember exactly. 

“Weiss? Yang? Blake? Are you here?” Ruby sat up and looked around, shivering and rubbing her arms to try and warm them up. She didn’t recognize this place at all. 

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Tyrian wandered away from his conversation with Cinder feeling all the more optimistic. Salem might be displeased with him for now but surely he could win back her favor. He was her most loyal weapon, her most dedicated supplicant. He would reclaim his status soon enough but first he would need a little assistance. 

He rapped chivalrously on the door to Watts’ lab before striding in and demurely hopping up onto the nearest flat surface clear of papers and equipment and experience. Tyrian kept one hand at the small of his back, shoulders up proudly like a courtier about to present something marvelous to the court. “Arthur! I have come to praise your abilities and to ask if you would be so generous as to replace the sting that I seem to have misplaced, after all it is in my nature to sting therefore I do need a stinger,” he announced, then used his other arm and his mutilated tail to sweep an elaborate gesture as he bowed deeply, letting his body tumble forward so that, with an acrobatic roll, he was on his feet on the floor of the lab and striding briskly toward the doctor. 

Tyrian lurched in through the door, muttering to himself and holding an already bloody and venom-dappled cloth against the bleeding end of his tail. “Look what that little silver-eyed brat did to me,” he whined, taking the cloth away long enough to reveal the stump where once his beautiful stinger had been. “I almost had her too. Her little team was a joke until that accursed drunk huntsman turned up as backup. I slashed him in the end but then she CUT OFF THE END OF MY TAIL!”