Regina's Introduction to Magic

by Cryptic Paw

A fan poem about Regina meeting Rumpelstiltskin and learning to use magic.

p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina was hurt./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She had nowhere to go./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"All she could think of/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Was her revenge on Snow./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She couldn't stay with her mother/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"For another day./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She decided then and there/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That she would run away./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"On her trusty steed,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She galloped down the dirt path/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In hopes to escape/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Her mother's wrath./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Then without warning,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Like unexpected mines,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Something reached out and grabbed Regina,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A tangle of mossy vines./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The vines turned her/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Around to view/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Her mother, Cora,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Who resembled a shrew./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""You cannot leave, Regina./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I've cast a barrier spell./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You cannot leave without the king./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"He serves our family well."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina saw the magic book in Cora's hands/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And struggled against the spell./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She knew that the strong undergrowth/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Had become her prison cell./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Don't struggle against the vines, dear./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"They'll only grow tighter./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I knew from the beginning/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That you were quite a fighter."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Cora released her/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And the vines fell loose./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"If they were holding Regina any longer,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"They would have become her noose./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina fell upon the ground/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"With a small bruise on her fore./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The hatred she felt towards Cora/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Grew even more./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The next day,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"They all rode out to the castle./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"With the king, Regina, Cora, and her father,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It was quite the hassle./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Even though Regina/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Would've liked to detain her,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She had Snow White/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Come to her new chamber./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You see, Regina had to keep up/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"This good reputation/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Or surely, the king/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Would give her a deadly proclamation./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Snow White and Regina/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Were simply bonding./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Something caught Snow White's eyes/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And sent her pondering./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Snow White reached/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Towards a box/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And opened it/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"While bouncing her black locks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She reached in her hand/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"For she was seeking./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Out she pulled a necklace/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"With a golden ring./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Then Snow White asked/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Without hesitation,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Where did you get this?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"What was the occasion?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She slipped the necklace/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Around her neck/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To keep her curiosity/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In check./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina grasped the back of the chain/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And pulled with all her might./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She started to choke/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Little Snow White./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""It came from Daniel,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Who, thanks to you, is dead!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You're very lucky/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That you still have your head./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It's all because/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You couldn't keep your promise, Snow!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Snow gasped out,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""I didn't know! I didn't know!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"But, alas, killing Snow/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Was all in Regina's head./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Here is what/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She said instead,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""I don't remember."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And she left it at that./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Snow quietly put/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The necklace back./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Later, Regina paced in her courtyard./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She thought she was a bother./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"But come to give her advice/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Was her loyal father./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""I know you want to be rid of Cora./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I'm here to help you out./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The magic book your mother carries/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Will surely help without a doubt."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The book holds the name of the person/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Who gave it to your mother./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Perhaps he can help you./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I hear he's like no other."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina took her father's advice/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And that very night/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She took the book from under Cora's pillow/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"For she saw it was right./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Back in her chamber, she flipped through the pages/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In hopes to find a name./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She found one inside the front cover/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And it wasn't lame./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""R-Rumpelshtilkskin," pronounced Regina./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""That's Rumpelstiltskin, dearie."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A shadowy figure appeared in the chair./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"His looks could kill a fairy./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It was Rumpelstiltskin, The Dark One./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"He answered to his summons./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"He had magical powers/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And in deals, he was common./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Greetings, Regina," he said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""How do you know my name?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Do you know my mother?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I've been told we look somewhat the same."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Rumpelstiltskin looked her over./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""No, you look nothing like her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I met you when you were a baby./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"For you, it was a blur./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I know what you want./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You know why I'm here./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I'm going to help rid you/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Of your mother, dear."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Yes! I want her gone!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I don't care if it's tragic./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I just have one condition./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I don't want to use magic."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A large, white, wrapped box/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Appeared in the center of the room./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It had a certain/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Aura of doom./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""You won't have to use magic./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"What's inside will do it for you./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"There's all but one simple thing/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That you'll have to do./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"There's a portal inside the box,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You see,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That can transport Cora far away./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I'm sure that'll bring you glee./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"If this is a goal/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That you really love,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"All you have to do/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Is give her a little shove./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Can you do it?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I know that you can./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That's only if you want things/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To go according to plan."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Rumpelstiltskin vanished/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And early the next day,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Cora came to Regina's chamber/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A while to stay./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She saw the box/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In the middle of the room./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Ah. A wedding gift,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I presume?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Cora was standing/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Right in front of the box/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Which didn't appear/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To have a lock./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A magical force/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Uncovered it from the rear/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And inside/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Was a tall mirror./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina was facing towards it/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And Cora was facing away./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She decided to get this over/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Right away./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina lunged forward to push her/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Into the mirror's open space/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"But before she could, Cora used magic/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To freeze her in place./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Do you think you can rid of me that easily?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Her mother said with a sneer./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Have you forgotten? I'm your mother/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And you don't need me far, but near."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Rumpelstiltskin's image appeared in the mirror/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And made a motion to push Cora well./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina saw this/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And fought fiercely against the spell./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina's face was/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Filled with rage/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And the unexpected happened/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"On the next page./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She broke free of the spell/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And she reached out her hands./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"An invisible force pushed her mother/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Into the mirror's wonderland./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina's face showed shock/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And she looked at her hands. Did she use magic/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She did not understand?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Job well done, dearie./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You've whisked Cora away./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I'm certain I'll see you/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Another day."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In fact,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It was the very next day/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That Regina, yet again,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Decided to run away./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Miles from the castle,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Though it was still in sight,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina was on her horse,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Low with might./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"But then/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Who should appear/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"But Rumpelstiltskin,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Who was quite near./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Dearie," said Rumpelstiltskin,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Magic...why do you shun it?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""I'm never using magic again/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Because I loved it!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A devilish grin spread/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Across his face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Dearie, I think that/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You've found your place./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Come and be my apprentice./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I'll help you reach your full potential./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"No need to fret. These lessons/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Will be confidential."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina smiled/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And without a doubt/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Soon she would let/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Her true self out./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Into the woods/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"They did go/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To a small clearing/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"With Regina's horse in tow./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Her horse stood before her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It was looking rather swell./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Now we will begin working/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"On the immobilization spell."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The steed reared back./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina held out her hand towards the horse./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A shining blue aura trapped it,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Stopping it in its course./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Her mother had used this spell/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"On her before/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And she would remember it/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Forevermore./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Congratulations, dearie./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You've passed the simplest test./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In the lessons to come,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I'll teach you the rest."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina practiced very hard./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Rumpelstiltskin was aware./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Sometimes she would practice/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In Rumpelstiltskin's lair./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina became more skilled/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"As each day passed/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Although there was no one/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That she had yet harassed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"One day at lessons,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It didn't seem like the rest./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Today," said Rumpelstiltskin,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""You'll be put to the ultimate test."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Before Regina/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Stood her steed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She wondered if she had/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"All the skills she would need./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Perform the immobilization spell/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To make its motion stalled."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina performed it perfectly/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"With no effort at all./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Now, dearie,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Comes the tested part./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"All you have to do/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Is reach in and take its heart."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina hesitated./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"This horse was her friend./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She didn't want today/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To be its life's end./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina reached in and took its heart./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She held it glistening in her hand./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Now you must crush it/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And send the horse to no-man's land."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina looked deeply/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Into the horse's eyes./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Killing it would just be/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Something more she would despise./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""I can't do it!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I can't even try!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I can't let my only/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Faithful friend die!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Rumpelstiltskin took the heart/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And he actually tried./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The horse collapsed on the ground,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Gave a final whinny, then died./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"There were tears in Regina's eyes./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She had just lost her pal./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She cried tears of sorrow/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And had low morale./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Later that afternoon,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"They went to Rumpelstiltskin's lair./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"No one else/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"But a customer was there./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The customer handed Rumpelstiltskin/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A white crystal ball./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The man said, "Here it is./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I don't care what you use it for at all."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Rumpelstiltskin said, "Excellent!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Over there is your pay./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Take the amount you see fit/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Of gold I have spun from hay."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The man walked over to the loom/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And through the gold, he fingered./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A few moments more/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"He lingered./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Upon the glass windows,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"There was some condensation./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina and Rumpel/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Started a conversation./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Dearie, do tell. Why did you/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Start an apprenticeship with me?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""I hoped that if I learned magic,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I could bring back someone who's dear to me."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Using magic to/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Bring people back from the dead?!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That thought is so ridiculous!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I just might lose my head!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Magic can do/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Many things, dearie,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"But it can't revive the dead!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It's impossible, you see./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I won't have a student/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Whose thoughts are so unrefined./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"From now on,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You're no apprentice of mine!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Rumpelstiltskin left her/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In the room./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The man from earlier/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Was still by the loom./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""I'm sorry. I couldn't help/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"But overhear/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That you're wanting to bring back/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A loved one you held near./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I am a hatter./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"My name is Jefferson/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And I, too, know what it's like/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To lose a loved one."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Can you really help me?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Apparently, magic will not do./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Right now, I really/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Have no clue."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""I know a man./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Magic is not of his appliance./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"He uses a force not of this world./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"This man uses science."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Where is this man?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I must know./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"If not,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I will regret it so."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Like I said,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"He is not of this world./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"His world is grey./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Color is not hurled./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To bring him here,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"We'll need to use my hat./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It has traveling properties,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To put it at that."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""But to do that,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Wouldn't you need permission?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"After all, it's a/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Very complex mission."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Well, aren't you/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The Queen, ma'am?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina realized her newfound power./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Yes. Yes, I am."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Later that night in the castle/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In Regina's courtyard,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Jefferson stood with the other man./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""The journey wasn't hard./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"This man is/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A good friend of mine./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"His name is/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Doctor Victor Frankenstein."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Frankenstein was dressed/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In a white lab coat./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"From his appearance,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It seemed that he liked to gloat./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina asked, "Can you really bring people/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Back from the dead?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Yes. My abilities are something/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That you should not dread./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Now, where is the body?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You must show it to me./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I must determine if it/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Can be raised easily."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina led them/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To her vault./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Whatever happens/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Would not be her fault./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Daniel's body was encased/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In a glass casket,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Which is definitely better/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Than a woven basket./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""I've kept Daniel here/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And I've cared for him well./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I've kept him with/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A preservation spell."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Frankenstein opened the lid/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And slit Daniel's hand./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Fresh blood fell/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"On the Doc's finger, it did land./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Simply astounding!" said Frankenstein./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""You've done much effort in his stead./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"His condition is that/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Of the recently dead./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To raise him, however,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I'll need a powerful sacrifice./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A magical heart of this world/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Would surely suffice."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""I know where we can get one," said Regina./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""We'll need to go to my old home./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It is there that an abundance of hearts/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Do roam."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"They traveled to Regina's old home/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And entered the hearth./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Not far beyond the fireplace/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Was Cora's turf./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Be silent./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Do you hear the beating?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It was quiet, then loud/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Like one thousand goats bleating./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"They all looked towards/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The fireplace wall./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina said, "Her vault is right through there./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It's not far at all."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina used magic/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To open the wall./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The wall had a slow/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And quiet fall./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Down the stairs into the vault/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"There were thousands of beating hearts./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Each one was held in a box./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"It was hard to tell them apart./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Frankenstein went over to a box/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And held up his hand./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The box, in reply, came out of the wall/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Like it could understand./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"He reached in the box and held the heart./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""Extraordinary!" he said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""This should be a powerful enough component/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In raising the dead."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Then, they all went to a field/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A little distance out./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"This is so they would not be/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Discovered or found if they were to shout./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The night was young/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And black clouds started to form./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In a few minutes,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"There would be a horrific storm./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Frankenstein set up a tent/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"With all of his equipment inside./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"He draped a sheet over the open end/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"For his process was a secret that must hide./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina and Jefferson stood outside the tent./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"They could see Frankenstein's silhouette./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"He got his equipment running./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina hoped she would not be upset./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Electricity started to build/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Up in the air./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina didn't want this night/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To end in despair./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Frankenstein took the heart/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And held it up high./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"As he shoved it into Daniel's body,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"A bolt of lightning came down from the sky./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The body jolted on the table./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The wind was raging wildly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Nature wasn't taking its toll/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"On the experiment mildly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The storm stopped/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And the wind died down./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Frankenstein came out of the tent slowly/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Wearing a frown./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The little light that was left/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Came to a dim./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The news Frankenstein gave/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Would surely be grim./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""I'm afraid to report/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That the experiment was a failure."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina was distraught/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And in tears, for sure./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Frankenstein returned to his land/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"After the tragic incident./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina had nothing left./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In magic, she became persistent./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Many days passed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"The kingdom became dark./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina decided to visit Rumpelstiltskin/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"In the field where she first made her mark./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She was sure Rumpelstiltskin would be there./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"That much, she did know./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"He seemed to follow her around/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Wherever she did go./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina arrived at the field/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"All dressed in black./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""My, my, dearie! You've taken on a new appearance./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"You look as sharp as a tack!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"If you've come for an apprenticeship again,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I cannot be of help./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"I've found a new apprentice here/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Who is stronger than a miniscule whelp."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"To the left of Rumpelstiltskin/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Stood a beautiful girl./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Her blonde hair was held back/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"All in curls./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And as if/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Rewinding the clock,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She was where Regina had been at the start of training,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Levitating rocks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""This young girl/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Actually has dedication,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Which is one of willpower' s/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Strongest sensations."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"Regina walked over to the girl,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"And without hesitation,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN"She took the girl's heart and crushed it./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 21.4667px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'EB Garamond';"span lang="EN""How's that for dedication?"/span/p