Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161106163624/@comment-26955524-20161108073950

At the end of volume 3, I read a lot of fanfiction that gave me this headcanon. And episodes 1 and 3 of volume 4 are only adding fuel to it:

Salem is a motherly figure to Cinder. Not so much that she adopted her, but Salem does care about Cinder.