Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-93.172.97.165-20161023190354/@comment-26397825-20161024013844

I felt like the sequence of the young boy transitioning to RNJR was simply to show off the new animation (look how pretty this is, check out our facial expressions, ooh look water) and to set the scene of where RNJR are; he was close enough to hear the Geist when Ruby pissed it off judging by the scene transition, so we got the idea that they were fighting a Grimm near a village. It was a simple farm, not highly technological, so it appeared to be outside the protection of a Kingdom. And it was early morning, so we know that RNJR were specifically looking for the Grimm instead of stumbling upon it halfway through the day (get the 'chores' out of the way early so you can move on to other things and all that).

It' a common trope in visual media to show something not actually related to the main story in order to set the scene nicely.