Flying from branch to branch I kept an eye on them, occasionally stopping to let the pair catch up. My niece seemed to only get slower as she traveled, the length of the trip no doubt weighing heavily on her.
It didn't take me very long to figure out where Yang was headed, after all there was only one place this small path lead to. What confused me was why she felt the need to bring her little sister to her old house. The place was sure to have been abandoned for a while now since there would be very few people actually wanting it. With it being so far from town, and smack dab in the middle of what most people call 'Grimm territory', it wasn't the most ideal home.
Whatever her reasoning was, that little girl was determined to get to that house. It both impressed me and worried me at the same time. My sister had the tendency to be this stubborn, which was often quite helpful when we were on quests since she wouldn't quite just because it was hard. But there were many times where it got her into trouble because she didn't know when to cut her losses.
I barely snapped out of my thoughts in time to keep from passing the girls. They had stopped suddenly, opting to stand in the middle of the path instead of keep moving. I was just questioning why when I saw the cabin sitting directly in front of them.
It looked worse than it had the last time I saw it, the screen door was hanging off one of its hinges while every window had been shattered. There were tiles missing from the roof, even what looked to be a hole completely through to the interior from there as well. I was a bit amazed. I knew nature reclaimed its territory fairly quickly, but this place looked like it was abandoned for twenty years, not five. There's no way it could have fallen apart so quickly.
I was just starting to suspect something else was involved when several pairs of red eyes shined from inside the house, confirming my suspicions. Nature didn't take back this house, Grimm did.
