Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160103163552/@comment-27137720-20160108033705

What if Cinder's "boss" that she was talking to in the blacked out scenes was actually the old man from the fairy tale? That would explain how Cinder knows of the Maidens, as he could tell her. Maybe Cinder found the old man like the maidens of old did and instead of showing him the good in the world, she showed him the bad and somehow convinced him to be evil.