Gannon truly is a hero. For one, he edged most of us here on WS out -- and we're pretty dang good people -- we're smart and people like us -- but Gannon managed to
live his entire life in goodness, light and love. Generosity of spirit. I believe Landen when she says
Gannon was different. Maybe a touch ethereal from the very beginning. That was no cape -- those were always wings.
But also Gannon confronted evil. And won.
If he hadn't fought back -- and with the courage of a thousand super heroes -- T may have gotten away with murder. That he fought and kept fighting left a trail of evidence that pointed right back at T....
And had T somehow gotten away with murder and if she had succeeded in pulling AS back into her hair lair or spiraled into the next relationship she'd poison, we can't be certain she wouldn't strike again. Gannon's sisters, AS's new son, someone else's children..... we just now know the
utter depth of her shallow self. She was not as she seemed, never was. (We got a glimpse of her true empty self in the courtroom -- when you don't develop character, compassion, decency, reciprocity, and all the rest, what is left is fugly beyond measure.) She was never a teacher or a carer or a special needs educator or a doctor or a girlfriend or a mother or a stepmother or woman or even a human being really. She was an imposter.
I said Gannon was ethereal. So was she, but in the opposite sense. The absence of all that is good and innocent and pure. He is LOVE. She is HATE.
He triumphed. Goodness always does.
And we may never know what child he saved. She can hurt no child now. He did that.
T will continue to spin and demand and make noise but watch, she is already disintegrating into nothingness. She'll be at home there because she was never anything but nothing.
If I could impart one secret to little L, it would be this: you are a beautiful soul -- and you, Child, may go forward fearless and strong. You faced off with the Enemy -- all other obstacles in life will be small in comparison. T has no power over you. The power is all yours --
The conviction in Landen's impact statement -- I AM LANDEN.
So rockin' powerful. Pair that with AS's mettle and we know where Gannon got his guts. #Gannonstrong. Though headlines will fade and we here at WS will move on to other sad cases, one day L will come fully into her own. #L...strong.

(I'm protecting her privacy but y'all can pencil her name in there.)
She too faced evil and won.
Jmo