Golden Glade i will fight you

Well damn, okay.

Eden listened to the child speak his woes with eery competence. Her head bobbed along to the words he shared, understanding them as though they were her own, only in the favor of Alyssum. Hawthorn, I'm not going to let either of you die. Her voice was soft and yet carried the strength of a survivor, one who'd been low enough times to know when she was up. Hawthorn, Rose, they had been orphaned without their own faults to blame. I won't let anyone hurt you either, and as she said this, she moved closer to him with an intense stare wiped across her face. Her next words would need not only to be heard, but to be felt. I will teach you everything I can, as though you were my own. And if your goal is revenge, then I can teach you better ways than death.