Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27687864-20160127193452/@comment-27910928-20160519210726

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

-Except the Grimm were never obliterated. The Dragon got frozen, but the rest of the Grimm were still standing, and kept coming.

Also, if Cinder wasn't affected...why would she run? Ruby fell into a small coma after that. Cinder had the perfect chance to kill her. Yeah I guess I kind of just assumed without any real evidence that the white light effected all the Grimm within the academy. But, I'm rewatching the episode and there's no mention of that.

On Cinder running, first of all Qrow only says that Grimm are afraid and effected by the Silver Eyed, he doesn't mention non-Grimm.

Qrow was the one who came to get Ruby. We know from earlier on with Amber that Cinder was willing to play the long game and get the other half of the Fall Maiden's power later on because Qrow showed up to save her. Cinder may have the full power of the maiden at this point but she had just been fighting Ozpin and Pyrrha and may have felt she was to exhausted to finish off Qrow in a fight. Especially since she couldn't have known whether or not reinforcements could be on the way for Qrow. She probably fled to regroup and report these new developments to her allies and masters(Salem?).

Finally, Qrow and Taiyang tell Ruby multiple times about how she froze the dragon in place atop the tower, but there isn't even a hint of if Cinder, the mastermind behind all this, is also present.