eachdraidh | {3rd Hope; voice} {Seelie; Open to Hermione's Compass network, backdated}

[There's a pause as she catches her breath after the initial whirlwind of emotion at Emma being affected by the silver sickness, the worry and guilt as they kept searching for answers. That the True Love's Kiss actually worked against this as well as it had any other curse back home. Snow is still a little breathless at that, but she feels it is important to try tell others. This particular method might not work for everyone, but if there's a chance it could help even one other.....it would be worth this.]

I know some are newer around here. Not the best of circumstances to meet but I'm Snow. And I figured at least one method against this silver spreading. But it might not work for everyone. Back home, in Storybrooke, in the Enchanted Forest, there was one way to cure any curse. True Love's Kiss. It works against this too. Of course not everyone would be able to use this option, like I said. But I thought....if it could help even one other person besides Emma, my daughter, I should tell you. I hope everyone is managing all right through this. If I can help more, just let me know.

[Yes, she said her daughter. Snow White has a daughter. And still believes in the likes of True Love in spite of everything. In spite of being separated from her own, Charming, for over a year here.]

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I would assume this only works if someone has a true love in this world.

[Or is loved truly? It really is a storybook to attempt to grasp this.]

Yes, that's true. I just thought - if there was a chance this might help even one other to be free of this. It doesn't need to be love romantically. It can be familial. Perhaps platonic as well in a strong enough friendship. I don't want to guarantee anything but it might help some others at least.

No, mademoiselle. It is very good of you to try to help others. I do not discount you. I only wish to...perhaps know what it entails.

[It's a cure at the least and it's more than she has been able to come up with on her own.]

Of course you would love your daughter very much.

Of course. It's....hard to explain or describe, exactly. True Love. I've seen it in the family. Me and my husband, my daughter with her son. Me and her, now. I'm not sure how this could be different from everyone else's relationships. I just know it has always seemed to work when we've been in need. When I was under the Sleeping Curse, that was how Charming woke me. How Emma woke her son from the same years later. It of course won't work for everyone if they don't have a True Love here. But it worked for us.

[It's difficult to try and explain. To describe True Love. How it might differ from other loves. Perhaps in intensity. In that feeling of rightness, wholeness. The trust implicit in it. The depth of their feelings.]

[It is quite difficult to describe. But Lia knows were her baby brother here she would love him most utterly. Without question. Without fear of a disease spreading to her, she would do what she could. Perhaps that was love. Perhaps she doesn't love anyone except for D'Eon.]

You sound as though you come from a storybook. It is rather uplifting.

Well, that's not surprising. My home has inspired many books. Many fairytales, actually. Not that we were aware of that back in the Enchanted Forest. But here I've had quite a few recognize my name.

[Heck, one even asked for her autograph. So this is something she is getting more used to, comments like this, people recognizing her name and reacting.]

There are some people here who seem out of stories. Legends of Arthur or...

[The name actually occurs to her. Lia is quiet for a moment, but when she speaks it is almost amused.]

Or Snow White. Of course.

Arthur, Lancelot. Knights of the Round Table. I know. I've met Lancelot myself as well. But I'm used to being recognized, by name if not my appearance. So I suppose I am getting more used to it. Or certain other connotations if I only give my first name for some from at least one particular world.

[Not specifying there, but talking to those from Westeros was always interesting initially with their reactions to 'Snow' until she picks up on it.]

It seems sometimes very much like we are in a dream. All of these people and then sicknesses that turn you to silver...

[Oh that must be awkward.]

I suppose different names have different meanings in different places.

A dream. I suppose that could be one way to look at it.

[Though it isn't. Or if that were the case, it is a rather cruelly realistic one.]

They do, yes. Which I suppose isn't so surprising when you consider people from such different worlds, such different times here.

Fortunately I believe my name is simply French no matter where I go.

[A relief in her case. No one things she's a bastard.]

I know it is not a dream but...sometimes it is nice to think of this as one.

Names can help us narrow down where someone might be from. But I guess for some this place could be rather tame and relaxing in comparison to what they might have going on back home. I could see it in that light, a 'dream'.

Not a particularly good dream.

[She can at least be amused about that.]

I thank you most sincerely for what you are doing to help. Perhaps I may run into you when all of this is said and done.

I've had worse. A lot worse.

[Nightmares of the family being torn apart again. Charming dying. The firey room under the Sleeping Curse.]

Perhaps. I'm mostly around Caer Glaem these days with my daughter, but I have the ability to get around when I need to. As well as offering my assistance to Cothromach.

You seem a mirror of myself then, mademoiselle. I am often around Caer Glaem but I have travelled to Cothromach as of late in service to Sir Loras. It seems we should one day bump into one another.

[Small areas and all, right?]

I imagine we will meet in person at some point in that case then. If not here then at Cothromach. I wouldn't be surprised. But I know there's timing and travel which can factor in. I'm still doubtful if I've met even a quarter of the people actually here even after over a year.

[And not just because of the courts. But in general, the way everyone travels a lot, it could be easy to miss each other along the way.]

There are a good number of people, that is true. Even with all the parties you may as well attempt to greet stars in the sky.

But I will watch for you.

Exactly. But I can keep an eye out for you as well. I'm sure eventually we'll run into each other.