[ Emerald thinks about it for a moment. Yes, she went down the only path she had. Her desperation to be loved gave Cinder the path needed to bring her in, to manipulate her, to shape her into the tool that Cinder needed her to be while Emerald still wanted to believe that some part of her really was the family that Emerald always wanted, no matter what Mercury said. No matter what she could see with her own eyes. But even knowing that, even being trained and punished when she was disobedient, Emerald came to the conclusion that what they were doing wasn't what Emerald wanted to be doing. Maybe she's till got a bad attitude and thinks people shouldn't be pointlessly optimistic or ignore the fact that the world is absolute shit, but despite having every reason to think the world should burn around her, she risked her life to get out of that. Someone died for her because she wanted to change the product.

But this guy is a stranger, and knows nothing about her. So she hums. ]

You're one of your guys who got way too far up your own ass with philosophy and decided to condescend to the whole world about it, huh?