Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20160226002630/@comment-28345522-20161031040528

Right now Emerald is stuck in a frozen over hellish equivalent of Alcatraz. Frozen Helcatraz if you will. If she wanted to escape, the smartest time to do so would be if there was a task that needed done and she volunteered.

Let's look at Em's mindset. She obviously feels indebted to Cinder, pushing Mercury out of the way since day one. She could also be in the mindset of Torchwick, who we can say wasn't cold-hearted murderer. But he saw that what these people were capable of and wanted to achieve, to him it was better to join them instead of opposing.