User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Volume 2 episode 9: Search and Destroy/@comment-50.175.158.72-20141003210303

Prehaps the village JNPR is going to will be attacked and wiped out by the grimm, with JNPR barely escaping with their lives?

To go even further maybe the attack was somehow instigated by Cinder as a sort of dress rehersal for things to come.