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[thestoriesarereal]

So...[The audio was the first to turn on, and Lucy figures it out when she sees her screen is dark. She quickly changes it to video, looking at the camera, unsure of what she's doing but she has to try. The network gets to see a young girl who looks unsure, but trying to be brave at this moment. A lot has been on her mind, but she needs to figure this place out first.

To some, she may carry certain characteristics of another young person from a long time ago..or recent.]

I can't say this is cool or not, we're on a moon and there aren't any flying cars but...

Anyone here know of Snow White? Or...The Evil Queen? And if they're here...maybe, point me in their direction?

[Is she being serious? The look on her face says yes. She needs to find people she can trust, and hopefully not be placed in a group home.]

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[thestoriesarereal]

[Maybe he should figure out a way to prevent curses from taking place.]

Oh? [She looks at him with a bit of curiosity in her brown eyes.] Henry was in the hospital, right? He was in a coma and Emma..kissed his forehead? Or his cheek?

[jolting]

Mhm. A sleeping curse that made it seem like he was dead. Emma kissed his forehead, and it was like a shockwave that pulsed out from them and expanding through the whole town.

I heard Regina managed it too, so... ah, you could try asking her to help you break the curse.

[thestoriesarereal]

[Her mood starts to go down.]

Regina's cursed too. She doesn't remember who she is. She doesn't even believe a photo of her and Henry in Storybrooke.

And Henry....he doesn't think I'm his kid.

[jolting]

Wait. So Regina was cursed with a different life? [must. not. enjoy the karma]

[thestoriesarereal]

[There's a nod of her head, and now she's looking up at Victor.

Is he...enjoying that? Or just curious?]

Yes, she ends up running a bar under the name Roni.

[jolting]

A bar? [he can't help snorting just a little bit. Sorry, Lucy, but it's a strange image for him after all his years of knowing Regina]

How about this: if she shows up and thinks she's Roni, I'll do what I can to try convincing her of her other life.

[thestoriesarereal]

Yeah, a bar.

[...What's so funny about that? Really, could you clue her in please?]

You can try...I tried, and what I've tried hasn't worked. [So...how the curse gets broken is anyone's guess.]

[jolting]

Worth a shot, eh?

[thestoriesarereal]

....You mean like, the shots you can drink?

[jolting]

[welp, he's not sure how she made that leap, but it amuses him] It's an expression. I'm saying it's worth trying.

[thestoriesarereal]

[Because Regina/Roni owns a bar. She pours shots. She thought it was a shot at what Regina was doing now.]

Oh...okay. Well...you can try. You might have better than me.

[jolting]

[tbh that option isn't entirely off the table]

Maybe. I've known her since she was a teenager.

[thestoriesarereal]

[Oh? That she didn't know!]

Really? I don't know much of her life before the curse. I mean..it was mentioned in her story, but I can't remember much of it. Not without my book.

[jolting]

Your book being the same one Henry had at your age?

[thestoriesarereal]

[A nod of her head.]

Yes, the same one. I only saw it recently, but before that, I had my own book that was different.

[jolting]

Well, I'm not in Henry's book, so the part where I met Regina wouldn't have been in there anyway.

[thestoriesarereal]

[Well...that is true!]

Oh...well...how did you meet her? Were you... [She looks at him with a tilt of her head.]

...Dating?

[jolting]

Uh, no. Definitely not. It was a professional call. My particular skills don't exist in any other world.

[thestoriesarereal]

[There's a somewhat short sigh of relief. Because...that would be weird to be around an old boyfriend of her grandmother's...]

What kind of skills do you have? Like...action hero type skills where you could saved kidnapped people? Or...magical ones?

[jolting]

The necromancy kind. Doctor Frankenstein.

[thestoriesarereal]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[She moves to stand in front of him, staring at him not in horror, but in utter surprise.]

You're the Doctor Frankenstein?

[Of course Regina went to him! To try and get her first love's heart back, to bring him back from the dead! Okay, he got ten times cooler in her eyes.]

I didn't think your world was real--I mean, I should've known, but did you use a magic bean to meet Regina or--how? How did you two meet?

[jolting]

[finally someone appreciates him. He likes you so much more now, Lucy]

Jefferson. He's a portal-jumper, so he used that power to jump me from my world to theirs.

[thestoriesarereal]

Jefferson??

[The name doesn't ring a bell for her either. Really, with a big book like the one that Henry had, there are a lot of stories to cover.]

I only thought you could go from one world to the next with a magic bean or...a lot of magic.

That's so cool!

[jolting]

Mm. He became known as the Mad Hatter.

[he shrugs] I guess the hat carried a lot of magic, then. I never really examined the mechanics of it.

[thestoriesarereal]

The Mad Hatter? From Alice in Wonderland?

[Just trying to get everything straight in her mind, because wow. The Mad Hatter? He was mentioned a handful of times, but after a while, he wasn't mentioned at all. Regina sure knew a lot of people.]

So he travels with his hat rather than through a door or a looking glass? [And now she wants to reread his story, assuming they can find the same book Henry had...or something similar.]