Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28189972-20161117073343/@comment-4010415-20161117120759

SpiritedDreaming wrote: such as a reason why Cinder was so interested in getting into Beacon itself when she could have just hung around the crowds as a background character and never been under the supervision of the teachers at all Well, now we know there's also some kind of relic that Salem is after, and Salem suspects it's in Beacon. I'm guessing that was the original reason for Cinder to sneak into Beacon as an exchange student back in volume 2, but then when Monty came up with the Maidens, Miles and Kerry slipped Amber into the story, and that took the spotlight over the relic, which didn't get a mention until volume 4.

And now we know that the plan was not just to break down the CCT tower and occupy Beacon to prevent recronstruction of the tower, but also possibly to occupy Beacon in search of the relic.