Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20170522044827/@comment-4010415-20170827221600

Maybe Hazel's meeting with Sienna didn't go well, so now Salem wants Adam to take over the White Fang because he's a more willing pawn, and that's why he's doing the coup.

I know that seems awfully quick, but we really have no idea how much time passed across Volume 4, since Miles and Kerry were really shitty about making the passage of time clear in that Volume. One moment, we see Yang put on her prosthetic arm, and the next, she's already used to it and sparring with Tai and says they've been training for weeks. It didn't feel like weeks had passed, to us, but apparently, they had. It's extremely unclear how long Blake and Sun were in Menagerie, and we know that RNJR's storyline took place over weeks, but it's unclear how many weeks. There's no indication for how much time Weiss' storyline covers, and there's absolutely zero indication on how much time Oscar's storyline covers too.

We have no frame of reference for how much time passed between Salem telling Hazel to meet with Sienna and when we saw him later in the episode Kuroyuri. We have no idea if Hazel was heading to or from the White Fang HQ in that episode, so we don't know if he had already met with Sienna or not. The purpose of his presence in that scene seems like it was at least partially just to tell us that the White Fang HQ is on Anima, possibly within the Kingdom of Mistral, as we know that Oscar's farm is within the Kingdom ("but I know you don't want to live the rest of your life working as a farmhand in Mistral.").

Also, keep in mind that a month is approximately 4 or 5 weeks.