Jacob / Ed
Manipulators wouldn't be dangerous if they weren't good at what they did. You were vulnerable, might've died without her invention. So she hit you where you were weak, and it's not as if she had to work for it. Child in summer clothes, wandering the woods?
And you were nine years old, by the by. You're supposed to be an idiot. You're nine and if you're not an idiot, well, something's gone-- wrong.