Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-5430952-20181103172633/@comment-5430952-20181118191354

ChishioKunrin wrote: Alhazad2003 wrote: Considering she was in a coma for almost a month, There's absolutely nothing saying that she spent the entire month underwater.

I'll say it again, I think a big part of that month was her recovering enough to walk more than five feet, followed by having to travel down the mountain.

The City of Mistral is situated on a pair of mountains, and Haven Academy is somewhere on the higher area of one of those mountains, considering that Nora had said they were going upward while they were on their way to Haven.

It was also said that, the further down you go in the city, the shadier it gets. The area in which Cinder found Little Miss seemed pretty shady.

Therefore, Cinder had to travel from a high area on the mountain down to a lower area that was sufficiently shady to find Miss Malachite. She may not have taken the elevator that RNJR did, or it may not even extend far enough down. Even then, it was an awfully slow elevator.

Mountains are at least 2,000 feet (610 meters) tall and take time to scale. Cinder didn't have a vehicle, and she couldn't start descending right away, due to the fact that she could barely even walk five feet without falling over on her face. She stole the lady's clothes, found shelter, recovered, and then started traveling down the mountain. She wouldn't need a month to recover, once she recharged and engaged her Aura a few times or so she'd be back at full strength again. Or she might have an quicker solution, like sucking the Aura and life force out of a victim, like the Mistral Woman, with her Grimm arm. And considering how clean her clothes were in the next scene, I get the impression Cinder did just that, so there'd be no blood on the clothes and thus no one would suspect anything. Not to mention there's no way all that ice would've melted so quickly, even when submerged in water. And it's magical ice no less. So again, I doubt she awoke until at least a month had passed, had it been sooner she might've intercepted the group before they left Mistral, and the story would've taken a far different turn.