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KNN005 wrote: But given Cinder's smarts, couldn't Cinder be preparing for something by keeping them on as her bodyguards well after Beacon fell? She keeps them around because she needs them now, to act as her crutches. I think that Mercury and Emerald were the ones who saved her life after she got defeated by Ruby, they probably brought her to Salem's domain after that and decided to stich around because they had nowhere else to go.

And who knows, having an assassin and a master thief around could prove useful at some point, don't you think?