Okay I've always wondered how kids just go to adventures and how they always take the most fucking dangerous route to get to their destination. Evil forest, creepy swamp, up the volcano with LITERALLY NO SUPPLIES
Okay so imagine a bunch of these chosen kids are looking for someone to speak to the trees or something like that.
So they go to the family in the woods and convince the youngest in the family that he is the one destined to go with them. So he goes home and tries to run away when the dad finds them . They assemble in the house and when the boy says the lines "It's got to be me" the parents laugh and tell his adventure buddies that if they need someone to go with them to converse with the trees they can take his wife because he's busy. And she can handle herself better in the outside world than he can anyway.
She takes enough money and they go through the safe route because
"No! Jeremy. We don't need to cross the forest of pain and swim through the lake of grief. We will be taking a carriage that will take us straight to Mr Death's company"
"It's the river of grief not lake..."
So she would make sure that they are safe, and well fed and not playing with sharp swords even if you are the chosen one. Now go to bed.
And she would notice the crushes within the group and just become a confidante for all of them because let's be honest most of the times the adventures have issues. So she tells them that they didn't do anything wrong. That they are just kids.
All the while she's a badass mom who makes sure none of these kids are hurt. She will make sure the trees will crush you and choke you and even tear through you to keep these kids safe. The cronies Mr whatshisname sent won't even get to see the kids, leave alone harm them. SHE WILL ENSURE THAT NONE OF THESE KIDS EVER SEE ANY OF THIS! NO NEED TO TRAUMATIZE KIDS. However, they get a glimpse of her fighting once and they are all in awe. And beg her to teach them how to fight.
She laughs a little at that and says that her husband will teach them,because she always rushes her students before they are ready.
When the mission is over, they come back home and she literally takes all of them into her family and if that's not the cutest thing I don't know what is.