Emery walked beside Gwen as she guided him through the foundation, his attention drawn not just to her words, but to everything unfolding around them. What she described was not a simple act of charity, nor a superficial effort to gain influence within the city. The foundation addressed something far deeper—an entrenched problem that had taken root in Dawnstar for generations.
Poverty here did not merely weaken people; it broke them. And among all who suffered, children bore the heaviest burden. Many were abandoned, left to fend for themselves in a city that offered no mercy. Others were pulled into crime before they even understood what survival meant, molded into tools for those who thrived in the shadows. Some were traded and sold, their lives reduced to nothing more than currency.
Against that reality, the Terra Foundation stood as a counterforce.
