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This is disgusting -

[ a voice that's rich in sarcasm and annoyance is heard and then a loud thud as a book slams against a table. a moment later regina mills comes to view, white silken blouse, black woolen coat, dark pants, impeccable hair given the situation and an expression that reads that she is, without a doubt, 120% done.

She stares at the book as if it had personally offended her and with a flick of her hand it goes flying across the room. ]

To those who call themselves the High King and Queen -

[ there is poison on the very way she pronounces those words. ]

Expecting me to fight for you is about as stupid as you interfering with the very weapon I would need even if I had wanted to. I have little to no idea what you or this misshapen world had done to magic.

[ or why as this makes no sense to her. ]

But I want it fixed.

[ and then she looks around her in distaste and mutters to herself ]

Looks as if this place is managed by farmers if to judge by this inner decor.

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Yes, I heard of that. Apparently, one can hide for only so long from their loving subjects.

[ 108% sarcasm. ]

People here don't seem very fond of their royalty.

[ not that regina was well loved as a queen but still. ]

It probably depends on who you ask. Most of those they've taken from other worlds are somewhat biased.

[ because kidnapping. ]

All the same, they seem to have remained in power for quite a while.

Well they are busy convincing us all to fight a war we have little interest at.

[ but some people are easy to influence. ]

You are?

Shijima Kurookano.

[ She assumes that was a request for her name, at least. ]

An observer.

How long do you plan to stay an observer for?

[ eventually, one has to choose a side. ]

Until I die.

[ Or until she changes her mind. One of the two. ]

How dramatic.

[ and needlessly so. ]

Do hope that you won't have to die before the day they will try and pull you out of neutrality.

I can't. Die.

[ So they're more than welcome to try the pulling. If she dies, it's what she wants. That's the only impetus Shijima truly has.

Though it'd be a pain if her world were destroyed. She'd made a promise. ]

So that is no concern of mine.

Then the shard can't be taken from you. How.

[ her interest is growing more and more and so her patience grows thinner ]

I must wonder if one really dies when it is taken away from them. If we had lived without them before, why are we dependent on them now?

Unless a normally fatal wound is all that is needed to draw it out, I suppose. But if a death is required, I can't give it.

[ A shrug. ]

Fromw hat little I understand about it, it is the shard nonsense that allowed us to be kidnapped. Or...something?

[ she has no idea ]

That is their lie.

[ and she is sure of it as she is of her own name ]

I know a lot about magic, dear, more than most of my world. there is only one in my world who knows as much.

[ if not much more but we are not discussing Rumpelstiltskin ever. ]

The shards were never present until we came to this world.

I know little about it. Ninja arts, perhaps, but we did not have "magic" at home.

[ and yet she's an immortal cat. ok. ]

I've no notion what the purpose of the things is, then. I have not even seen my own.

To bind you to a cause that is not yours, that is their purpose. That and some undoubtedly dark magic.

[ that perhaps keeps them rooted in this world. damn monarchs. ]

don't worry, dear. Once this is all figured out we will all go back to where we belong.

[ aside of herself as regina no longer has anywhere to belong to. not with henry being gone. ]

[ Another shrug. For all that she appears to be thirteen at the most, Shijima is well over two hundred. She's patient enough to wait out whatever this is, and wasn't in a hurry to be anywhere back home, anyway... ]

If you figure something out, I would be interested to hear of it. For now, I don't intend to fight for a cause not mine. I might help someone out if I find them interesting, but I don't find these monarchs very interesting at the moment.

[ She kinda likes some of the Unseelie folk as much as she likes anyone, though. So she'd probably back them against Seelie if she felt like it. ]

I feel much the same as you. I wonder why they bothered with people like us, really. A waste of horribly decorated room and food.

I did not catch your name.

[ She should probably...learn it............she's bothering to learn Unseelie names more than Seelie at the moment since they're the people she's apparently stuck with. ]

If people want to waste food and board on me, I'm hardly going to stop them.

[ BECAUSE SHE'S LAZY. ]

[ a small chuckle at the last sentence. to everyone else she said 'miss mills' and deemed it kinder than 'madam mayor' or 'her majesty' but this one. this one is interesting so - ]

Regina.

I assume you aren't participating in this hunt nonsense, or going to that party. Or are you?

[ Shijima is...participating if you count stalking around sort of nebulously hunting things as participating, though she's not really trying to get the hart. She's mostly trying to socialize in her own manner so that people will Tell Her Things if they learn things.

She's not sure if this is how Kouichi handled the information gathering part or not, but since he isn't here she's left allyless and has to sort of build something up from scratch, lest she have to do everything herself. ]

Hardly. I rather do my research. What are they hunting for?

[ it's been a while since the evil queen hunted for anything or anyone in particular, something many people are very grateful for. ]

The White Hart. The king of beasts. Apparently this happens yearly. It allows itself to be killed, and then is reborn anew.

[ She doesn't see the point in that, tbh, if you're gonna die just stay dead. ]

So both courts are running about trying to kill it. Well, I'm hunting whatever I feel like hunting.

[ rabbits. mice. birds. etc. ]

--- That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard since Wonderland.

[ what the actual fuck though. ]

What does the winner of this -- exciting tournament get?

Wonderland? As to that, recognition, I presume.

[ Shijima isn't too interested in winning. Just in people-watching. ]

Prestige seems to be of some import here.

A land where logic is never found.

[ not that it's different from her life anywhere else these days but. ]

--- I might come to see them make a fool of themselves.

[ high five to people watching. ]

It's amusing. Not everyone here is very skilled at hunting. Some seem to be, but some aren't.

[ she has no idea why a few of their court are wandering around...they don't seem to be that skilled at camping either??? amusing though. but all the elves and stuff seem to be fine. ]

I might go watch people at that party-thing, too.

[ At the barrel. Whatever. She can hitch a ride. ]

A bunch of foolish idiots, some of which can't hunt try and hunt a beast for nothing but a title.

[ she smiles. ]

Perhaps I will see you there, yet.

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