Talk:Dust/@comment-28189972-20170810233345/@comment-4010415-20170811095317

^ SYUTK makes an excellent point about the Boarbatusk summon at the party. Weiss didn't have Myrtenaster with her and didn't appear to have any Dust with her either. Even if the dark blue gems on her outfit and in her ear rings are actually Dust, there's also the fact that Winter did not have her weapon with her at all when she summoned a Beowolf in Lessons Learned.

Which, now that I think about it, it seems odd for a special ops military personnel to not have her weapon on her, despite knowing that Vale is host to a terrorist group that had previously stolen a shipment of Atlas mechs. And we do know that she knows that because she said the whole reason she was in Vale was to oversee the shipment of mechs since the last one had been stolen, and she mentioned Team RWBY facing the prototype Paladins.

Either way, she didn't have her weapon with her: