The World Called Remnant

Gentle Awakening

"Guilt is a deadly feeling... it kills in a different manner... slowly... painfully. If not treated with care it will become a reason for finding your own death"

Winter was in the outer garden that lay in the school grounds, it was a peaceful place. Many green grass and lots of birds and trees were in the background of the place. But all of that was irrelevant to her, she had shut it all out. Why? Because she had not slept well, every time she closed her eyes the pained expression of Qrow came into her mind. 'I went too far yesterday I had no right to tell him that, but still..."

She took a slip of the tea she was having; coffee would kill her right now. She would never forget that there was a time when she and Qrow could hold a conversation without ending it with a discussion, it saddened her that even in all her attempts to try and reach out to him when the disaster happened, and even now, all he did was shut her out.

"Winter?" A familiar voice tuned her out of her thoughts, Winter looked up to look at what seemed a younger but more innocent version of herself. Her sister Weiss was a gifted girl, at her young age and she already had dominated most of her glyphs.

"Good morning Weiss, take a seat." Winter gestured towards the seat that was across from her.

"Tea?" She asked her sister, which nodded.

"Is everything alright Winter, you look-"

"Everything is fine Weiss, in fact things could not be better" She lied between her teeth.

Weiss noted, however, the slight pain in her sister's eyes but decided against pushing the matter further. She took a slip of the served tea, savoring it. She did wonder why her sister had appeared all of a sudden yesterday when everything had occurred, she assumed that was why she had called her out here.

"I talked to father" Winter began, and immediately a cold shiver went down Weiss' back.

"Do not worry sister I calmed him down, everything will be ok" Winter calmed her sister down.

Weiss let out a breath of relief "Then, why did you call me out here, or better than that why are you here?"

Winter chuckled "Can't I come to see how my sister is doing?"

Weiss smiled "That would be nice I admit, but you only have time to see me in holidays and even then it's hard to get in touch with you"

"Well, you are correct" the smile on Winter's face faded and she looked at Weiss with a serious expression that made her sister stiffen a bit.

"Weiss, listen I've heard that you and your team have been exemplary and have finished all the missions that have been given to you, am I correct?" Winter asked taking another slip of her tea.

Weiss nodded proudly "Yes! Winter I have a very wonderful team, apart from our dunce of a leader, all my teammates are marvelous. We've even helped in some very important missions."

Winter smiled at her sister's enthusiasm, it was nice seeing her smile and laugh like a normal teenage girl, back home she hardly even spoke to anyone. "So I've heard, though I have also heard that you have a bad habit of getting into... troublesome situations with that team of yours."

Weiss laughed nervously, "Well..."

Winter sighed "It's fine Wiess, but you should also know where your limits are and try not to push yourself over the edge. The world is a much rougher place that what you girls have seen." That last part was said mostly to herself than to her sister.

Weiss looked at her sister and could see that she was troubled "Winter what's wrong?"

Her sister took another slip from her tea "I was called her by Prof. Ozpin, to speak about how Atlas is going to offer its protection during the Vytal festival." Winter lied