Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150807131522/@comment-10390252-20150909113334

SpiritedDreaming wrote: But wouldn't they just assign active Hunters who they know are on their side, instead of just putting a teacher and calling a Hunter back from wherever the hell she'd been for the last half a decade? Only if it was an official mission that could be allowed onto the books.

Something tells me that there is an under-the-table 'war' going on about which Ozpin and Ironwood have not been keeping the Councils of the four Kingdoms informed. In such a situation, deniability is important to maintain freedom of action. Even when there is a cost to your conscience when you have to claim that you do not know why a woman who was as good as a daughter to you died the way she did.