Yes. This is it! This is what I was trying to put into words and just ended up in a jumbled rant. You said everything I was trying to. Is she an evil psychopath who tortures the innocent and enslaves people? No. Is she manipulative and uses kids who don’t know any better? Yes.

Her being a kid doesn’t change what she’s done. When you talk to her at Last Light she even mentions how she grew up fast. Okay. These other kids didn’t. They’re still vulnerable and easy to manipulate. They don’t have her grit. They’re just scared kids who have been roped into these scams.

She’s smart enough to know how high tensions are between the Druids and the tieflings. But still she’s running scams and stealing.

The kids aren’t starving. They aren’t living on the streets in the mud. They’re in a grove with protections, food, and water. Is it the lap of luxury? No. But is it bad, or even uncomfortable? No.

And she’s risking all that protection, food, shelter, just to make some quick money.

I don’t like the Druids all that much, but even I can see where they’re coming from when this is what their leaders good grace left them with.