Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160214165601/@comment-24994749-20160218042747

Lord Jaric wrote: I seriously doubt that. If she was frozen in place, Qrow would have just decapitated her when he retrieved Ruby. RT isn't going to kill her off like that. This is one of the reasons I believe that something more happened atop the tower that made her retreat. We don't know in what condition Ruby was when Qrow got to her...

It's possible Qrow just wanted to get his niece to safety and have her checked by a doctor and everything else be damned. It's perfectly possible Qrow grabbed Ruby and run away to not risk the Dragon waking up. After all Taiyang said they were not sure what was up with it.