Talk:Of Runaways and Stowaways/@comment-9464517-20161106185914/@comment-3387274-20161106210005

The same reason the villains were doing nothing all through the first two volumes. They've been setting up pieces. Those bandits that attacked the village are apparently known to Ren and Nora. Salem is looking for an artefact, and is teaching Cinder to control Grimm, Atlas is slowly drifting towards conflict with the other kingdoms despite nobody wanting it. There has been a lot of things that you can build a plot on, which is necessary before you set a plot rolling.