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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]

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. ]

[andtrue]

We don't all get the chance to experience it ourselves.

[cabineyes]

Maybe you will, one day.

I doubt it but... everything is possible.

[andtrue]

From what I've heard, well. Maybe it's for the best that I don't.

[cabineyes]

No.

Despite everything, I wouldn't change a day.

[ good times were had. ]

[andtrue]

Would she like it here?

[cabineyes]

Why?

[ pauses. ]

... I think she might. Adventures, she loved them. This place has plenty of those.

[andtrue]

Do you know what happened to her son?

[cabineyes]

You mean you don't?

[andtrue]

... That's a difficult question.

[cabineyes]

[ stops. cut the crap august. your memory must suck bad time. ]

It wasn't in this book that you claim to have read?

Just like I wasn't.

I'm starting to get an idea why you didn't try your luck at card games in the previous town. You're not as good at bluffing as you'd like to think you are.