Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-14909251-20170901053307

ChishioKunrin wrote: What really gets me is that it seems the short takes place in present day after Volume 4. It confuses me because they surely can't have anything too significant happen, right? It's just a Character Short. Anything really big or significant should wait until Volume 5.

That said, now that I think about it, maybe their choice of a scene for the Weiss short has something to do with whatever is gonna happen with Weiss and Winter in Volume 5. I brought this up before, but I imagine the reason Weiss had a dream in her short is because nothing exciting was going to happen on her way to Mistral. My expectation is they're all being shown in transit with Volume 5 starting with them arriving so both Yang and Blake can be entirely in the present, but Weiss made the most sense with a flashback dream. They can have some significant character show up in the short, especially Ilia. Her being in Menagerie wouldn't be a shock at all that would need to be in Volume 5. She can be involved without it being significant. Maybe they see her and give chase or she is shown making some remark or comment foreshadowing events in Volume 5.