"And I have my own opinions on that shit," she said, keeping her bitterness mostly under control. "I think it's miserable that that place trains all of you to fight. You're kids—present company excluded," she added quickly, though everyone was going to be a kid to her. And maybe that was the problem, she thought; maybe she needed to reframe people like Qrow and Ozpin as the outliers they were, when it came to age.

"You're supposed to be having shitty little first dates and screwing up your homework. Not getting trained to fight forever wars, or... getting the soul of a fucking time lord shoved inside of your body. That's for your older siblings to take care of," she said, like everyone had those. Like she wasn't just laying all of it right there in front of both of them. "I don't know. I know I've bitched about this before, but, like, christ. I really don't want Remnant to be the way it is, and I don't even come from there."