Goodness, [ She breathed out, hands pausing for a moment.
The shock wasn't genuine. Robin wasn't an orphan, as far as she was aware, but she'd been taken to another family. And she'd been fighting long before she was that age. If anything, her indoctrination made her inclined to think that those orphaned children were fodder for a cause that'd never be relevant to her, even if the Family had somehow shared the world Ianthe came from.
They probably would've thought the same of the Beckers, unless Mother had found a way to place herself among the families that mattered. ]
cw: child soldiers, indoctrination
The shock wasn't genuine. Robin wasn't an orphan, as far as she was aware, but she'd been taken to another family. And she'd been fighting long before she was that age. If anything, her indoctrination made her inclined to think that those orphaned children were fodder for a cause that'd never be relevant to her, even if the Family had somehow shared the world Ianthe came from.
They probably would've thought the same of the Beckers, unless Mother had found a way to place herself among the families that mattered. ]
I was adopted. All of my siblings were, actually.