If there were one word Penny would use to describe Jonathan, it would be: diligent. He hadn't wasted his second life. He'd used it to plan, to manipulate, and to rewrite his fate.
And he did it in a quite clever way too.
Jonathan had leveraged his knowledge of the past to orchestrate an escape plan for a few dozen children, saving them from the orphanage's dark dealings. In doing so, he gained a loyal group—children he raised, brainwashed, and turned into devoted soldiers.
But Jonathan had been just as young as the rest of them. To feed those children, he had to take on multiple side jobs. At first, they begged on the streets. That eventually turned into pickpocketing to survive.
Of course, that wasn't enough.
