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I shouldn’t be talking about this. Not with the void, and the mountain collapsing, and all the angry people outside, and all the fighting. [ She sighs softly. No matter how many festivals and feasts there are, the violence and chaos never seems to stop. ]

The last time my Papa went on a trip, he was gone for a whole week. It felt like forever and ever. [ She bites her lip to keep herself from crying. ] Now I’ve been here for a year, and…. and--

I keep on thinking about how Papa would always make breakfast in the morning. And I think about my brother calling me Monster, and me stomping on his foot! And how Kero-chan used to eat all the cake in the house! Or all the times I could always call Tomoyo, and she’d always be there with me.

[ To think that the last time Sakura saw them was so long ago... it hurts, more than anything has hurt her before. ]

We were brought here to protect our court, and I know I should help! I want to help! [ She is, in her own way. Even if she wasn't there to help with the collapse. ] But... I don’t understand. Why are we fighting? Unseelie. Seelie. People without shards. We could help each other get home!

Why do we keep on fighting, when we could help each other?

[She hesitates, worrying that her words may be making people upset. That's the last thing Sakura wants.

There's a long pause before she speaks again. ]

What happens at home while we're here?

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To keep everyone safe... Seelie, Unseelie. I'd like that. [ Sakura smiles sadly. ] But that'd make the monarchs unhappy, wouldn't it?

[ And she appreciates your advice and wisdom, Snow. Completely. ]

Do you know anyone who went home?

Well, perhaps it wouldn't make them the happiest, but that still doesn't mean they're forcing us to go out and fight or take their shards from the Unseelie.

[Like they probably want. Snow isn't one to just do anything blindly when it would cause such pain and only start the cycle of her attempt to redeem herself after Cora all over again.]

Hm. Some, yes. But there's little I can do about that from here, it seems. Even if I might miss them.

So we can go home! How did your friends do it? Was it magic -- or did they ask the monarchs?

I'm not sure it was really in their control. Or their choice. It just....happened. I just heard that Gwen and Sansa were gone. So there's obviously a way back. Just not one we can choose to activate ourselves somehow. I'm not sure if it is the fairies like how we got here initially or something else though. I know that's probably not quite the answer you wanted though. I'm sorry.

So it's like a surprise! Or maybe if we're not helping enough, they'll send us back...

[ Who knows. ]

Don't apologize, Ms. Margaret! You're always helping me and answering my questions. [ You can even hear her smile. ] I miss my world, but I'm happy that I came here and got to meet new friends like you!

I'm not sure if there is any particular criteria to when we might be able to go home, exactly. Perhaps it is if they don't see a further need of us.

[And that earnest honesty can't help but slightly cheer Snow herself.] Of course. I know what you mean. I miss everyone back home too, but I've still come to make some new friends here as well that I'm sure I would miss as well.

I don't know how useful I am! [ She laughs sheepishly. ] I wonder...

[ But if she can barely understand this world, how could she even begin to understand the monarchs' reasoning? ]

Now that we're not stuck in a dream— would you tell me about your worlds?

You are just as useful as anyone else. If not moreso than the likes of me. I don't have any magic outside what little I've started to learn here.

[Given Snow's seen her in action with the dream they shared with the harp. But that's not necessarily something she's sure that many others might already know, so she doesn't specify over the lockets.]

As for my world, well. That depends which you'd like to hear about. I'm afraid my life in the Enchanted Forest was really much more....adventuresome than my life in Storybrooke, Maine. In the land without magic.

Not if I won't fight for them. [ And she's quite serious about that. ] What sort of magic are you learning?

[ Wait for it, wait for it, cue childish glee... ]

The Enchanted Forest? Hoeeeee. That sounds amazing! Like something out of a storybook-- do you unicorns too? And fairy godmothers? How about princesses and knights? Dragons?

[Oh, she's awestruck. Even if she's basically described Drabwurld too. It's the Enchanted that makes Snow's world seem far more ideal. ]

I've been trying to train in using my shard. But also learning a bit from Dorian and one other in regards to magic. One being earth magic. Though it's different from the magic I knew back home. It's....hard to explain exactly, but it's like I can manipulate earth, pull it up, shift it. I'm still barely figuring the basics though, really.

[Though oh, Sakura. She's so excited and curious about it all. Henry was too, when he first read the book. When he knew the truth and nobody else believed him. Yet he knew.]

There were unicorns and fairy godmothers, yes. As for the princesses, well. I was one of them. With that naturally comes knights and guards and princes. My husband fought a dragon once, so I can say that they are quite real in the Forest, yes.

[Well. And Maleficent. But Snow tries not to think on that too much.]

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