The next morning the atmosphere was tense and quiet as if the whole town knew something was going to happen.
Everything stopped as if the time had stopped moving and people were not coming out of their house. The birds in the sky did not fly, and their voices were not heard.
The sun began to shine in the sky, and the Breeze was gentle and warm, but in city hall, the tension could be cut with a knife.
The Queen began to wake up and tried to blink her eyes to pass the feeling of fatigue and dizziness. She felt a sensation of pain at the edge of her head and did not remember exactly what had happened to her.
She wanted to raise her hands to her head, but she found her hands tied to the chair she was sitting on.
She began to look around and realized that she was in Regina's office in the city Hall.
The room was illuminated from the sunlight in the window, the office was quiet, she could not see anything else in the room.
When the Queen laid her head on the chair she felt someone else behind her. She tried to turn her head as much as she could to see who was with her in the room.
And immediately she could see Regina still faint and tied to a chair just like her.
It was strange she didn't believe the fairy would leave them alone without supervision; she must be in the area.
The Queen wanted to check out that Regina was okay and tried to wake her up.
"Regina, Wake Up, come on, you must wake up." She called out to her as she knocks her head against Regina's head.
Regina grunted in pain and the Queen was happy to hear that she was starting to wake up and continued to annoy her until she awoke completely.
"Good, I'm glad to hear you're still with me. Now you have to wake up and cooperate with me".
"Why my head hurt so much?" she wanted to raise her hands to her head and stop the pain, but her hands were tied to the chair. She tried to remember what had happened earlier.
"I think the blast from the spell on the door caused us to lose consciousness and head injury." Regina told her and took a deep breath to relieve her headache.
"Regina, listen, we don't have much time to waste, right now we're alone and we must unite back to one person, only that way we can beat the Black Fairy."
"You really think this is our only solution, but what about Robin?" she asked her in a heavy heart, she knew that it was not easy for her other half.
"Yes, this is the only solution I have to offer; you must accept me back to you, concentrate really hard and think about us unite again." The Queen guided her.
"Okay, I'm ready; I've had you as a part of me for a while." Both concentrated hard and saw themselves reunited, the process was supposed to take a few minutes but after five minutes nothing happened.
"I don't understand, why can't we unite?" the Queen asked.
"I don't know, you're sure you're ready to do this, maybe you're hesitating, and that's why it's not working." Regina thought aloud.
"No, I'm ready for this; I know we will find a way to separate again. This has got to work".
"All right, let's try again." They saw themselves reunited together and thought of it really hard, but still nothing happened.
"It doesn't work, what do we do now?" For the first time that Regina woke up she lifted her head and looked around and saw that they were in her office at the city Hall.
"What are we doing in my office?" she asked with wonder.
"I don't know but we don't have time to think about it, the fairy will return at any moment and we still have no escape plan." The Queen said in an angry voice, she was sure that her idea would succeed.
"The ropes, shall we try to untie them, do you have any magic?" Regina asked her other half with hope in her voice.
"I don't know if it'll work. I had a little bit of magic coming in here but I can't feel it so much now, but I'll try anyway". The Queen tried to make the ropes open and saw it happen in her mind, but the ropes remained in place.
She did not want to disappoint Regina and so tried again and this time with much more concentration.
"Well did you succeed in releasing the ropes?" Regina asked and looked toward the door to check that the fairy would not catch them trying to escape.
"Err… I can't activate the magic, there's no way we can release these ropes. I'm so sorry I've failed you".
"What, no, I'm not accusing you of anything. You risked your life for me, now we can be dead. I didn't want it".
"Don't think like that, I can't believe I'm saying this, but there's one thing I've learned from Snow it that always to keep hope, no one will harm you, Emma will not let it happen and you know it".
"Thank you, I know I didn't say that much, but you are an important part of me and I love you." Regina said sadly, she knew that the fairy would not give up easily and she did not have much time left for attempts to escape.
"I know what you mean and I love you, I can fully accept myself." The Queen said to her other half proudly it gave her a good feeling.
They tried to look at each other and take comfort in the fact they were not alone.
"Wow that was exciting, I really am so glad I could be here at this moment." The fairy came into the room and pretended to wipe a tear from her eyes. She began to approach the women sitting in the middle of the room.
Regina looked at the fairy with a look of hatred and so did her other half.
The fairy looked at the faces of anger that the twins had sent her way and began to laugh.
"I'm really scared of you right now, you should see your faces just the same." She stood next to the Queen and looked at her.
"I am so excited to meet you, the woman who cast my curse, the Evil Queen. I have to say you're just becoming more beautiful with the years just like a good wine".
"I don't understand, you create the curse of Rumpelstiltskin?" The Queen asked her she was surprised.
"Yes, you did not think my unsuccessful son would succeed in making something so powerful and intimidating. No, all he cares about is revenge on a pirate who took the woman who didn't want him and returned the son who chose to escape from him. He's not worth anything, just weak he doesn't understand real power as I know. He does not know that love is a weakness and true power stays with you forever." She said proudly and the women in the room were shocked by the words of the fairy they felt a paralyzing fear on their body.
Those were the exact words of their mother.
The fairy stared at the twins shocked eyes and smiled a wicked smile.
"What? Did you really think that Cora invented that sentence?" She circled around them and continued to talk.
"No, I was the one who taught her the wisdom of life. That power, true power is worth everything. I pushed her to take what she wanted and I sent my son to help her get it. Already then I could identify the great potential in her to be the best of them all." She told the girls, they really thought that Rumpel was so smart and Sharp-brained. They didn't know he was just a little boy playing games. She was the one who pulled in all the strings and made moves that would contribute to her in the future.
"More than that, when I was the good fairy before I took the freedom to be who I am, Blue gave me a prophecy, she said that one day I would lose everything I cared about, I didn't know then that she meant my son, he was destined to be the Savior and he meant to be my end. So I made a few changes to his destiny, and instead of being the great savior, he became a great coward, one who couldn't threaten me. All I cared about was me being in my son's life and not lose him, but after I made the change Blue banish me to another world and because of her I lost my son. My son grew up and became the greatest threat everyone feared and I could not be there beside him".
She continued to tell while she was walking in front of the girls. She was upset about the Situation, because of Blue her son grew up alone with no love and no proper support and good intentions, together they could be on top of the world.
"Only after I was alone in another world away from everyone, I realized that it was exactly what I needed for me to be the best, to be in control of everything. The same day I met Cora, I got another prophecy. I, compared to my son, didn't want the first born child of Cora, I wanted the second one in line, the little girl of Cora".
"What, why? What could you possibly want from me? I would never help an evil woman like you". Regina shouted in her direction. She was confused by all the information that the fairy shared with them.
"Yes, yes, I know you wouldn't help me when you were the girl with the pure heart, Mother's good girl. You couldn't even hate your mother after all the things she did to you, she made you suffer, you still loved her and continued to believe that a day would come and she would love you back. That day did come later than early and even then it didn't last longer than... a minute maybe. No, I only needed you after the curse I created was cast in other words I needed you to come to this world so I could use you. I don't need you to cooperate with me; I'm taking what I want".
"So why have you waited until now, I've been in this world for 28 years, you've had plenty of time to act, why now?" Regina tried to understand what she wanted from her.
"I needed the right moment. The woman her heart was so pure became almost black as coal, and over the years she managed to redeem herself and return to the same pure heart and love, almost the same heart. Now is the time for me to be the winner, the ultimate sacrifice to ensure that my curse will never be broken. Once I sacrifice you, no one can be more than me. I'll be in control". The fairy could see on Regina's face that she realized that this was the moment she was going to die and that everything was planned from the moment she was born.
Fiona wanted to see Regina even more broken, so she added that she had told Cora about the guy in the stable and their secret love before Snow told her. Cora was just waiting for the right moment to act against her and break her heart.
"You see, I win and you lose." She proudly completed her story. She could not wait for the moment she will be above all else.
Regina could not hear more and tears had been shed on her face. Her whole life was a lie and she lost everything she cared about because of the evil woman standing in front of her.
The Queen was furious, just like Regina she loved Daniel with all her heart and wanted to kill the fairy with her bare hands.
"I don't know if anyone's ever told you, but I'm never lose, I'm going to kill you for it. Remember my words, I will kill you and there won't be one person to mourn for you. I will remove you from this world". The Queen yelled at her furiously and tried to pull the ropes from the chair.
"Yes yes, I've heard about your threats, I've told you, you don't scare me. Just wait, you haven't dealt with the right opponent but now that I'm here you're going to lose. You see that cute little girl sitting behind you, that's exactly who you are, so you're not a threat to me".
"You don't know me or Regina; you have no idea what I'm capable of." The Queen told her.
"I know you can't counter me, I'm too strong for you, so I suggest you sit still like a good girl and we can return to the matter in hand."
The fairy turned to the living room in the office, she wave with her hands, and all the furniture vanished. She waves her hands once more and an altar appeared. On the altar were ancient symbols, and on both sides of the altar were silk ropes. The fairy took out a kit and put it on the altar, inside the kit there was a very special dagger almost like the Dagger of the dark one. She began to perform a cleansing ritual for the dagger.
The queen who could see all the happenings wanted to try to save Regina from this destiny. She began to whisper to Regina.
"Regina, we must try to unite again, it is our only way to stop her. If we don't do this, I don't think there's any chance you can survive".
"What she doing, I can't see anything."
"It's not important, focus on what we have to do."
"I've tried to do it until now, come on let's try again I trust you."
"Okay now close your eyes and think hard about our union because without it we are lost." They both closed their eyes and thought of the union strongly.
"I can see it happen, I want it to happen, why does nothing happen?" Regina asked her other half and continued to concentrate.
"I don't know, it was supposed to work, I can see it too, and I really want it to happen. I don't want to see anything happen to you". The Queen said to her resolutely, she wanted to save her other half more than anything even if her life was on the line.
The fairy In the meantime had just finished her dagger-cleansing ceremony looked at the girls concentrated on something else she knew what they were trying to do, she would let them continue to try but knew that it would not work. She will give them the news a few minutes before she is going to begin the sacrificial ritual.
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On the other side of the town the heroes of the Charming and Mills family were on their way to save their family.
Emma want to make sure that the entire area is not trapped and when she knew that everything was fine around the building, they went to the entrance.
The building was quiet and pretty dark, and the group went quietly and began to walk toward the room where she saw Regina being held for the last time.
Up until now their plan works fine but Emma had a feeling it was too easy for them. She was sure that the fairy would find the Queen by now and make sure to secure the place.
They came to the room where Regina was, but to their surprise, the room was empty. Emma knew that her feeling was correct and that it was really too easy.
"Where are they?" said Snow.
"I have a bad feeling about this; I think it was too easy to get here." Emma said to the group.
"I know what you mean; I have exactly the same feeling." Robin said.
"Do you think she moved them elsewhere?" David asked.
"I think it's pretty obvious, don't you think?" Zelena answered him with a witty answer.
Emma only rolled her eyes on the answer of Zelena and answered her father.
"I don't know what to think anymore but we don't have time to waste, now that the fairy knows you're here she won't wait with her plans, so we must find them before it is too late."
"What do you want us to do?" Snow asked her daughter, she wanted to let her lead the move.
"I want the building searched. They may be still here but hidden elsewhere. Only then will we think of another idea if we don't find them here". Emma told them and everyone agreed with her.
"OK me, Zelena and Robin look on the top floor, you and Snow will look on the first floor".
"All right, you have your walkie; make sure it's active so we can get in touch if we find something". David offered to his daughter, and she pulls the Walkie out of her pocket to show him that it was active.
"If we don't find anything, we'll meet at the exit in an hour." They agreed to the offer.
Snow and David went up to the first floor and began to search every room. Before every opening of the door they put their ears to listen if there are any voices coming out of the room.
They searched all the conference rooms that the building had to offer even reached the janitor's rooms, they didn't want to skip on any room they didn't know what the fairy was capable of. But at the end of the last room they discovered that the first floor was empty and there was no sign of the girls. They were hoping that Emma and others had a much greater success.
Emma, Robin and Zelena went up to the last floor. Emma was a real pro she knew the floor by heart just like a second home. They decided to keep Regina's office to the end because they thought it would be less logical to hold her there.
They went through all the rooms including the various secretarial rooms and the janitor's rooms for a moment they thought of checking the kitchen in the place but after thinking further, they rejected the thought because it is a very small room.
The last remaining rooms were the mayor's office and the secretary room next door.
They walked in as quietly as little mice into the mayor's personal secretary's room, the room was quite quiet but they could see a light flashing under the mayor's office door. They approached the room and could hear sounds coming from inside the room.
Emma had just identified Fiona's voice and believed that she was talking to the girls or at least to Regina she was in the room, she hoped they were at least together.
She pulled out her own walkie and called to David.
"Dad, you hear me. We found them, go up to Regina's office, they're inside".
"We're already on our way to you; don't do anything until we get there."
"Dad we have a problem, the Black Fairy is with them I can hear her voice. I hope we're not too late".
Snow and David quickly went up to the top floor and arrived within a few minutes. They stood together with the others outside the door and listened to the conversation between the girls and the Black Fairy.
The information they had received surprised them, they did not believe that the fairy was the one behind everything that had happened, and how she was unfaithful to her son.
To Emma it was pretty clear that the Black Fairy will be the creator of the curse that will end all the curses. Only pure evil like her can think of such a thing.
The most surprising information was that she was actually responsible for everything that happened to Regina.
Snow realized that no matter what she would have chosen to do when she was a little girl, Regina was destined to suffer from her mother's hands, and Regina would think she was guilty of Daniel's death. Cora wanted to have the guilt fall on someone else so that she could stay in Regina's life and continue to influence her.
Cora knew all the time that Regina saw Daniel behind her back and their love. She wanted to see her daughter break to pieces and submit to her wishes.
"We must wait for the right moment to break in, so we can help them somehow. I'm not letting her sacrifice Regina". Emma told everyone in anger she didn't know how to digest the last news.
"I think it's a good idea, in the meantime we will listen if something changes in the conversation between them. If something doesn't sound right we're going in, I'm not waiting another second". Robin told them and prepared the arrow and the bow to action.
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"Regina I don't understand, we think about the reunion fully, we are ready to accept each other, why this isn't happening. I didn't want anything more than that in my life. The Queen told her in frustration.
"I don't know what the problem is, maybe it's because we don't have magic?" she expressed her fear.
"To perform the union there is no need for magic, we are the same person. We belong together is just like going back to our natural place".
"So what's our problem? Why isn't this happening?"
They were both disappointed that they were unable to do the only way to solve the problem called the Black Fairy.
"You two seem too busy, maybe I can offer help for your little problem." The fairy said.
"We don't want anything from you; we can't trust any of your words." Regina shouted at her.
The fairy only laughed at them and went to Regina, and stood in front of her face and gripped her chin so that she could not move her head.
"Wow, look, look, the swan has teeth and she wants to bite. Sweetie if the Evil Queen doesn't scare me, you certainly don't, all your big words are sound like cotton candy".
She released Regina's chin and stroked her face. Regina moved her head quickly from the hands of the fairy.
"Do not touch me, you horrible woman, pure evil, you disgust me." Regina shouted in her direction.
"Thank you, Regina. Your words warm my heart, so many compliments". She said sarcastically, she would not consider Regina's words important because Regina would not be a problem for much longer.
"It's true that I don't always speak the truth, but in this case I know exactly the reason why you can't unite back and be one woman." She said to them with a big, wide smile.
The women did not know how she knew what they were planning, and that surprised them.
"You thought I didn't know about this idea, basically if you could do it, so theoretically you could beat me. But I have seen such an idea from the moment I knew that Regina had divided into two, so I prevented such a possibility to exist.
The reason you can't unite is very simple. You're not the same person, well not from the same time, anyway".
"What do you mean? Of course we're the same woman". The Queen didn't believe her.
"Yes, you are the same woman, but not from the same time period. You see you belong to the present time period of the older Regina. The second Regina not exactly as mature as you she belongs to the past time period she is the young Regina, the innocent, pure Regina. Therefore, your body cannot unite, it is the Regina of the present, but when I cast my curse I made a change to Regina of the present so that she would be in the physical condition of Regina of the past. On such an accurate level that I even made sure she was pure in every sense of the word including her virginity".
"I don't believe it, it's not possible to change the person she was, it is against the laws of magic." The Queen knew the rules from the previous curse if it were possible; she would have changed some things for herself.
"That was true about my previous curse but this one is a little different, after all it was my curse and I made some change to allow me to do so. And now that she is in the ideal condition for me, I can perform my ritual and sacrifice her so that my curse will never be broken. And once that happens, guess what else happens?"
The Queen looked at her with gritted teeth, and eyes filled with anger, she realized what was going to happen.
"Precisely, when Regina's past does not exist then no version of Regina exists. You will cease to exist and no one will stop me. Not a true love kiss can happen when there is no Regina to Emma's true love and so I remain a winner and live my Good life".
"You will not succeed in this, Emma will not let it happen, she will find a way to stop you, I believe in her she is the Savior and all the good magic in this world." Regina was not ready to give up on Emma and their love; she knew that Emma would do anything for them.
The fairy laughed at Regina's words and told her in a serious voice. "I already have."
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At the same time Emma was outside the door hearing the whole conversation with her family, tears were in her eyes, she could not imagine a world where Regina did not exist. But she knew that Regina was telling the truth and that was a perfectly accurate statement. She will not stop and do not rest until Regina returns to her even if she has to return to the underworld and bring her back.
The group decided that they would enter the door and stop the fairy from all her plans. No ritual will happen here.
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"I don't know if you remember, but I already told you that Emma left town, she didn't believe your story, she doesn't even remember who you are to her. I think you have too much hope in your love. But the fact still remain, Emma left you in my hands. Even for Henry she was not willing to stay, I saw him falling apart in front of my eyes. Poor child all he has left is me, I promise you, I will take care of the boy properly as if he were my son. He wouldn't fight me after he knew I'm the only one left around". She laughed in an evil voice.
"You will not come near my son, you leave him alone, he will never be yours, and you know that he shall fight you in any way possible. You don't know my son, he's a hero, and he's a fighter just like Emma". Regina told her, She furious even more then angry she did not know how to describe her feelings in words she wanted to break the fairy part by part.
"Not only he will be at my side, I'll make sure he grows up to be my assistant, he will be much more evil than my son or Gideon. Together we will do great things, evil but great things". Fiona wanted to press on all Regina's sensitive points and make her understand what she was capable of, how easily she could corrupt the child's pure heart.
"My son will never be what you want, even if I'm not alive, he will always be good because that's who he is." Regina did not give her the feeling that she was able to reach her.
"I suppose you will never know the answer to that question. Now it's time for us to continue with my plan. Do you have any last words for us, before you leave this world? "Fiona asked in innocence she didn't really care what she had to say.
"What I had to say I told you, I believe you won't succeed in what you plan. Emma will stop you". And Regina meant every word.
At that same moment the office door opened firmly and Emma entered the room with her parents, Zelena and Robin, all with weapons ready to fire.
"Just like Regina said, I'm going to stop you and I won't let your plans to work." Emma screamed at her.
The fairy was surprised to see Emma together with Zelena, Snow, charming, and Robin. She didn't expect that to happen. But that didn't bother her, she could still stop them, after all she was the only one who had magic.
Emma looked at Regina and smiled at her, and Regina was happy to see Emma again, and tears of joy were in her eyes. Robin looked at the Queen with a lot of love in his eyes and he was happy to see that she was fine and she was excited to see him again.
"Emma, I'm very surprised to see you here, I thought I had managed to chase you out of this town." She did not know whether Emma was aware of all things and if she remembers Regina.
"Enough with all your crazy ideas, it's over now we're here to stop you".
"You have no idea who you're dealing with here, I'm not who you think I am, I'm not a match for you." The fairy told her.
"But I know exactly who you are. The Black Fairy and you are not going to win. Now release my wife and let her go, you've already lost". Emma said it proudly.
Regina smiled at her; she waited for this moment that the fairy would realize that Emma knew everything.
"So I understand you remember everything, too bad I liked you in the previous situation. No matter your wife is not going to be here much longer. So why don't you take a seat in the first row and enjoy the show". Fiona said and waved her hands, everyone in the room froze. They couldn't move.
"Now it's time for the main star of our great show to be the perfect sacrifice."
The fairy told her captive audience and began to go to the chair that Regina was sitting on. Regina tried to escape from the chair that restrain her, but without success. She could not fight the power of the fairy. Without her magic she is an easy target.
In a light wave of her hands, the ropes around Regina's hands were released, and she immediately stood on her feet, and she wanted to at least embrace Emma for the last time, so she wanted to her. She was so close to Emma and suddenly she was stopped by the fairy magic. She was so close to being in her love's hands but still far enough that she couldn't touch her.
"No, no, I don't allow you to touch her; I don't need the magic to be broken because of you". Regina didn't care about the fairy's words; she just wanted to tell Emma the really important things.
"Emma I love you so much, I want you to know that you are the most precious thing in the world and I am glad I had the honor of being your wife. I will always be with you no matter what happens here today, remember that I always love you. Take care of our son and raise him to be the best man possible". Regina sob, she didn't believe she needed to say goodbye to Emma, she didn't even had the chance to tell Henry how much she loved him.
"I'm sorry I can't say goodbye to Henry, tell him I love him and I will always be with him. He's the best son I could ever ask for. We raise a great boy Emma. I'm glad it's with you; I wouldn't want to share it with anyone else". Regina couldn't stop the tears that had fallen on her face.
"Oh so touching, I'm glad you're done with all that love. Now I think it's a great time to continue to the ritual".
A few moments later, Regina disappeared in a black cloud and reappeared on the altar when her hands were tied to the altar's sides. While she is wearing a white silk blouse that comes slightly below her chest and matching white long pants, the abdominal area remains exposed.
Emma looked at Regina in loving but sad looks she could not speak and tell her how much she loved her. She doesn't know how she can keep living without her, but she must be strong for Henry. Regina asked her to watch him and that's exactly what she was going to do.
"You can still stop it, you can be better than this. Maybe for once, be the mother your son needs. Although he is a grown man, he still loves you. If it wasn't true, you know there was no way you would have come this far". The Queen tried to convince her she was desperate to try anything.
"You really think I'm going to give up my victory for my incompetent son. He's not worth something anymore; he's got too much love in his life he doesn't care about me. Right now all I want is the best life ever. To be above all else, to control everything. No heroes to interfere with the way I control. After I finish this sacrificial ritual, everyone will be at my mercy. There will be no one who would know something was wrong and so I will always be above everyone else".
The Fairy explained the reasons she wasn't going to give up this moment. She began mumble words in a language that is unknown to anyone, and suddenly Henry appeared in the room, running quickly towards the fairy as he held out a sword. He intended to stab the fairy and cause her to lose concentration so that the magic would be removed from his family. But he wasn't fast enough, and the fairy stopped him a second before he could stab the sword in her belly.
Regina and the Queen called to Henry together when they saw the fairy approaching him. The Queen tried again to pull the ropes, which made them tighten on her hands even more and Regina tried to release her hands from the silk cloth ropes, but the fabric was enchanted, and the more Regina tried to release her hands, the cloth become more tightened what caused her discomfort and pain.
"You rude, stupid and incompetent child, you thought you could beat me. Who you think you are, you're not a threat to me, after I'm done with your mother you will learn a lesson. I'll make sure for a re-education for you".
"I won't let you hurt my mom, none of them. You know that true love won't let you hurt her. I believe in miracles and you're going to lose, heroes always win. "
He said loudly and full of pride. The hope that came from him almost caused the fairy to lose concentration in her magic.
Regina was so afraid that Henry was going to get hurt, she didn't want to see him for the last time but she used the opportunity to say her words to him, she realized that it was her last chance.
"Henry, please, I don't want you to get hurt, I love you, always remember that. Be a good boy for Emma. Go to school and succeed in life. I am so proud that you are my son and I would not replace you with anyone else". Regina said in a voice stifled with tears. She could not see the dears to her heart hurt by the magic of the fairy.
Fiona returned to stand next to the altar and continued the sacrificial ritual, she had to cleanse the sacrifice, and while mumbling the language of death she passed her hands above Regina's body. Regina began to glow in bright white light as if she were an angel that had fallen from the sky.
"Excellent, the cleansing ritual is complete, now as soon as I take this dagger and sacrificed your life my curse will be forever."
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Sorry for the cliffhanger at the end, well I'm not so sorry because….
The next chapter is the final and it going to be full of surprises.
So keep following the final chapter of this journey.
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