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[ladybirdcrap]

Hey good job guys you actually fulfilled a mission of a post for once and nothing got set on fire? Wow gold star what special little sports you are. Okay so once you pick up and leave town after you stay the night you're on the road again, you're headed for a small village about a half day's walk. Take up your horses and your wagon and all that and hit the old oregon trail etc

Somewhere along your walking montage you'll pass a gathering of stones that look kind of out of place. You can stop to poke it if you're really bored but you're going to have to keep moving, so

[Mission: walking montage, poke things, be cool]

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[cabineyes]

Come up with it yourself.

[ i'm not writing the book for you. ]

[andtrue]

It's already written down. The book already exists.

[ .......... kind of. ]

[cabineyes]

...

And you read it?

[ is that how ]

[andtrue]

Sure, you could say that.

[ there's nothing about hook in henry's book but hook never has to know this ]

[cabineyes]

[ it's probably the same history book that owen told the others had read?? maybe?? we just don't know. thanks for making his headache so much worse. ]

Wonderful.

So now you can give me my hook back.

[andtrue]

How's that earning? You haven't done anything yet.

[cabineyes]

If you read the book you must understand why I need it back.

[ catches up with him. c'mon now don't be a bitch. ]

[andtrue]

I don't remember. You'd better jog my memory.

[cabineyes]

What happened is hardly a secret. I would have told you anyway.

We're friends, aren't we?

[ except i'm going to choke you soon if you don't give it back. ]

[andtrue]

Are we? You keep changing your mind. Must be the pirate thing, huh.

[cabineyes]

That could be it.

[ dusts some dried mud off his vest. ]

Now where would you like me to start, friend?

[andtrue]

At the part that matters?

[cabineyes]

Oh, you want the shortened version?

[ rumpelstiltskin is a bitch. the end. ]

[andtrue]

No.

[cabineyes]

[ fine he'll start with the part that matters then. stares at the road up ahead. ]

Her name was Milah.

[andtrue]

[ so there was a woman. there always is, in the life-long revenge stories. ]

Pretty name.

[cabineyes]

[ yeah he's a cliche like that. ]

She was beautiful and she yearned for adventures. Nothing could stop me from taking her with me. Not even her husband.

He was a coward.

[andtrue]

... You're the one that stole his wife. [ pauses. ] Wow.

[cabineyes]

Who said anything about stealing?

She wanted to leave. Being stuck in her miserable home didn't suit her and I understood that.

[ you can't steal a person august. ]

[andtrue]

That'd make you... older than you look.

[ that's not the point though ]

... I'm sorry about her.

[cabineyes]

[ much older. you didn't know? smiles. ]

Me too.

And he will be, too.

[andtrue]

[ being in the hundreds was unexpected. almost as old as rumplestiltskin. ]

So that's why you can't let go. True love.

[cabineyes]

[ neverland is a great holiday location. ]

What do you know of true love?

[ no offense but you don't seem the type. coward. ]

[andtrue]

... I know what it is. The, uh, official definition. That counts.

[cabineyes]

It doesn't.

[ doesn't even begin to. ]