( ALL COURTS ) ENORMOUSLY BACKDATED TO ARRIVAL IN THE PAST TBH

[dreamcatcher]

( Emma does not look like she has it completely together. honestly, that's because she doesn't. she's tired of all of this. to go home, to get a chance to reach out to those people she missed so terribly, only to land here, again... it hurts. she's not good at losing people in the best of instances, but in this one it's like tearing open really old wounds. she barely remembers the happiness of seeing her father, Storybrooke again. she didn't even get a chance to find a certain dashing rapscallion before she wound up back here, and maybe that's for the best.

what isn't for the best? the fact she's back, here, and alone.

maybe that's not fair. her entire life story has been about loneliness, so why should it change now? maybe Snow and Henry, maybe they got to stay. it's not something she can hold against them, and she should even be happy for them. that they're not dislocated from the place they're meant to be.

it doesn't help that she should be glad. instead she's sort of panicked. )

Please. Somebody, anybody... if you've seen a boy by the name of Henry Mills, or a woman by the name of Snow White... I need to find them. I'll pay for information.

( this would be a good time to introduce herself or make new connections or ask questions, but... yeah, no, she really doesn't have it in her to focus on anything else. )

Henry, if you can hear this, just answer, okay?

( she doesn't know how she's going to find them in a land that has reset, a new and foreign landscape that she had barely started to get the hang of before they fell back in time and everything changed. but if he's here, she'll find him. that's not an option. )

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[desperate_times]

Hey. You haven't seen them since we all landed here?

[The last time she saw Snow was when they were world hopping. Chloe didn't know the woman didn't hop back here with the rest of them.]

[dreamcatcher]

No. He's not here. He's not with me.

( and she doesn't know if that means he's back home in Storybrooke or lost or just somewhere else in this new version of the drabwurld but whatever the answer is, she needs to know it.

[desperate_times]

Anything I can do to help?

[She doesn't know Emma all that well, but she knows her enough to know that she thinks she likes the woman, and she's been good in a fight.]

[dreamcatcher]

If you see him, let me know? He's got brown hair, brown eyes. A few inches shorter than me. His name is Henry.

( that's really all she can ask for, isn't it? unless Chloe has a secret bloodhound she doesn't know about. )

[desperate_times]

[She nods.]

I will, and I'll inform the crew.

[The airship covers a lot of ground, but this land is so disjointed now, it may be difficult to really search for someone with nothing to go on.]

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[cinnamoned]

[To be fair, Snow herself had just been about to figure if the lockets could work across courts, to try ask if anyone had seen her daughter when this came up. She can't help the relief that fills her at the same time as there is worry, because this is still Drabwurld, even if things aren't quite so tense as before. Because Emma is not right there at her side the way Henry is.]

Emma? Emma! I'm here, I'm fine. Henry's here too. We're in the same court. I'm not sure where you are, but I can probably get us there with Leopold fast enough if necessary. Are you okay?

[dreamcatcher]

He's with you?

( oh, thank god. the stress of not having her son literally makes her feel a hundred years older. it's a difficult feeling, and one she supposes Snow has experienced all too well. )

What... what court is that? ( Emma is a little disoriented by the sudden surplus of relief and information. ) Yeah. I'm fine. I was just... he wasn't here, and I thought...

( he was gone. gone in about a hundred different ways, her head was pretty creative. )

[cinnamoned]

He is. So don't worry, I'm keeping an eye on him. We're with the Amber court, I'm not sure which you've been...sorted to but we'll figure something. Things don't seem quite so tense, at least. But Henry's fine. At least if I can look after him for now we know he's safe.

[At least one of them has been conveniently figured in the position to care for him in the meantime if not Emma than his grandmother. For now. There's a definitely relief, as if they let out a breath they didn't realize they were holding, as Snow finds that Emma is okay.]