Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216041923/@comment-26397825-20160216045718

Then you should have clarified that you meant the scene in episode 12, because you didn't mention anything about a specific scene and put up a picture from the trailer. Of course I'm going to assume you were talking about Summer's ghost petals.

That's also just her silver eyes power activating. You know, the new leged we were told? Taiyang was against telling her anything but Qrow decided she should know. So he told her the legend of the Silver Eyes, which I got the impression was even older than the Maiden story. If she was a Maiden, he would have told her the story of the Maidens. He had no reason to go "Oh, I'm gonna tell her. Wait, nope. I'm gonna bullshit my way out of this will some made up story about a rare genetic quirk."