[ Em. Emily. He's mentioned her before. Rose has talked to her, even. The woman doesn't think based on what she knows that it's too much of a leap to assume they're together, that she's someone important - if not the most important - to Matt.

And now, another assumption, is that she'd killed him. Or at the very least had something to do with why he was murdered if it wasn't her directly.

Rose tightens her grip on Matt reassuringly, letting him know he can cry it out should he need to. She wants to be for him what she wouldn't let other people be for her until it was too late. If she can prevent him going down the path she did by taking the world on her shoulders, then it'll be one of the few good things she's done the last three years. ]

I don't know, dude. I wish I could tell you, but- This place is super fucked sometimes, I'm sorry. [ Even if Haven was worse, Hadriel can still be a hard pill to swallow for someone not seasoned in fuckery like Rose. ] I wanna' say 'it'll be okay' but I can even promise that. It gets better, at least. [ This might not even be the worst, but. It always gets better. There's always things that will make it worth in places like these even if they can be hard to find in these moments. ]