~ Sticks ~

Raven leaves.

The team has been floundering, broken and leaderless, for too long. Qrow falls further and further into the bottle, trying to kill what's left of his heart so it will stop falling in love.

Taiyang languishes.

The days all bleed into one another, empty and gray. He exists without knowing what he continues to exist for. There is only one thought that breaks through the haze. His lungs should have been a forest by now. He doesn't understand why they're not.

Raven is gone. She left him to return to her tribe.

Why haven't his flowers begun to bloom yet?

~3/3~