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[Rapunzel is still experimenting, still figuring this out. She has never used anything remotely resembling this device before. But she gathers it would help her get in touch with others here? Apparently. She figures it akin to leaving notes or letters for someone? That sort of thing. The idea of video, of recording herself is new, not something she considers at first when she experiments with it and herself and Pascal show up on the screen for everyone, green eyes wide as she blinks, taking it in as her head tilts slightly. Pascal is at her shoulder almost entirely hidden amid her hair, which trails out off the screen with having seventy feet of it, though it is definitely visible behind her as well. One hand withdraws from the device, to run her fingers through her hair.]

I was told this might help us talk to others. I don't know if -- is it working, Pascal?

[The chameleon at her shoulder seems to give a shrug? As of course he has no more idea on it than she does.]

If this is working, I'm Rapunzel, and this is Pascal. I wonder if Eugene is here too. If he is, then I need to find him! He's hurt and I can...I need to help him! I can heal him!

[Her hands tighten around her strands of hair, fidgeting and wringing them almost in nervous habit. Pascal nudges at her cheek with his head, causing her to glance down to him and take a breath.]

If anyone knows Eugene - he might be going by Flynn Rider. Please let me know. I just want to know if he's alright. And I guess, I also need to figure this place still. Since I just got here, more or less. Assuming this works. I think it did? Let me see....

[She would feel a little silly, perhaps, if it didn't work. But if it did. If it did help her find him if he was here, it would be worth it. Even if she were rather panicked. She has every reason to be. That the last she recalls being Gothel stabbing him so he wouldn't go leave and tell anyone where she and Rapunzel were. So he couldn't help Rapunzel escape. Maybe in time, she might calm down, but that wouldn't happen immediately, not until she knows if he would be alright. That her going to him to heal him would work. She reaches to the device, to try figure if it worked in sending a message, ending the feed.]

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If he is here, he'll hear this and answer. [ That's the best she's got, unfortunately. ]

But if it helps, I think they fix people up when we're brought here. So if he does arrive it's likely the power holders would have him in good shape. [ Assuming they can be trusted, which is an open question still, but it wouldn't do much good to bring people here only for them to die before they could find anyone else. ]

I hope so. But - this place, it can heal when they arrive? I hope that's the case, if he is here. The last thing I remember was I was just about to help him.....

[So she is. Understandably worried. But at the least what Saya says has her a little less panicked than she was. That Eugene would be seen to and be alright if he were here. Hopefully.]

Mmhmm. It wouldn't do much good for them to bring people here only to have us useless to do what they brought us here for. [ Namely touch each other, use seasonal magic, all that. ]

I know nothing I say will probably eliminate the concern, though. It goes with the territory of caring about someone.

That is a good point, I guess. And, yeah. I mean. He came back for me, so. That has to mean it was a misunderstanding, before. That he does like me.

[It was a big misunderstanding. About him and the Stabbington brothers. The crown. Gothel had planned it. Had set it up so that she would leave. To make it look like Eugene had abandoned her. He hadn't. He was lucky enough to escape after that, to not be executed for stealing her crown. Let alone dying from his injury in being stabbed.]

[ Okay that's lacking some context, but probably not rocket science. ]

Misunderstandings happen to the best of us. Someone coming back means they probably want to fix things.

He did. I mean. I know now what happened. Or, I can guess? That it wasn't his fault. That Moth - no. That the woman I thought was my mother was manipulating things. I don't think she counted on him coming back though. She just wanted him out of the picture and me back in the tower with her.

[In a simple sort of explanation? She is trying. She's just. Dealing with a lot right now, ending up here and with the timing and all.]

But he came back. He did.

[ "Woman I thought was my mother" shouldn't make sense but it really sort of does. ]

Well... it sounds like you've seen past whatever it was, and he wants to move on, so that's what's really important.

I guess? I'm not sure if we will get a chance to. I mean. He might, if he survives, if I heal him, but.

[In return for healing him. She had promised to stay with Gothel. So. They wouldn't be together, at least, as far as she figures. Yet at this point, anyway. Being pulled from right before everything would change.]

I don't think we'll be together. I promised if she let me heal him, I'd go with her. Stay with her.

Well... I'm not sure about all the specifics, but sometimes life can be really hard. And it's even harder to see ways past that hard stuff.

I hope things turn out better than you're thinking they will.

I hope so. I guess I won't know until I get back home. From here. But if there is a way we end up here, there has to be some way back. In theory, at least.

In theory, yeah. In practice, it seems to mean waiting for them to send us. So probably the sooner we fix things up here, the better.

I'll do what I can to help. I just got here, so I'm still figuring it out, but. I want to try. So I -- so all of us can get back.

So you said. Give yourself time to get over the shock. Usually these places will send us back to the moment we came from, or so I've heard. Assuming one wants to go back. [ Saya sure isn't going to. ]

Alright.

I do. Want to go back. To help him, at least.

[Rapunzel can't just let him die. After all he had done for her. Even if that might mean she ends up spending the rest of her life being used for her hair and healing, stuck with Gothel.]

Right, I figured from what you said. I hope you get back there to help him.

Me too.

I guess for now, just. Need to figure out this place. While I'm here. In the meantime.

If it helps at all, almost everyone here seems really great. I know it's not the home you're wishing you were at, but...

[ You know, small favors. ]

That's. Something then, I guess? I haven't exactly made a lot of friends or anything back home. But that is nice to know that people here are helpful?

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