Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170206193307/@comment-28522425-20170212010217

I kind of hope that Cinder will actually start to care about Mercury and Emerald, and see them as more than her tools.

Kind of unlikely at this point, but I always imagined that if Salem gets displeased for some reason and tries to kill Cinder, Emerald and Mercury would save her.