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Open post for Emma Swan! OU, AU, Percy Jackson, whatevs you want! This is to help me get his voice down. If you're struggling to find a plot, take a gander at the random scenario meme.

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[cinnamoned]

If they were there during the curse before you came to Storybrooke I might not have noticed. I'm not so sure about....back home though.

[Then again, such things were so normal in the Enchanted Forest that she may not have noticed then either. It's hard to say, whether Emma might be right on that guess. Magic can be powerful, so Snow wouldn't say that idea could be impossible.

She quickly heads past the branch Emma holds back, giving a grateful smile in thanks. Once Emma catches up, there's a pleasant surprise when her daughter reaches for her hand, and Snow takes it.]

You know as much of Neverland as I do, Emma. Hook's the main expert on that front. But you know your room would probably have been similar at our castle. I know it's not what you're used to now, but it's not such a bad thing?

[Having such accommodation was more than Snow ever had for years while on the run, after all. Something she's learned a lot from and has made her all the more grateful for everything. She notes Emma's use of 'princess' there but doesn't comment, doesn't make a huge deal of it. Even if it's the little things that make her smile, that show Emma embracing them, as a family.]

I just doubt any of this is going over any better on her end. Which means I wouldn't be surprised if she were to start taking out her frustration somehow.

[Especially if she still has her magic.]

But she has changed so perhaps she will find a better means of doing so than she used to.

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Maybe nobody noticed because you were used to that kind of thing?

[Emma shrugs slightly. She was still weirded out by the fact that Tinkerbell hadn't been the little pixie that Disney had painted her as. The mention of Hook makes her stall, tilting her head as she tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear before replacing it on her sword, keeping ready.]

I guess it's not. It's just...I dunno, it's something to get used to. And if I ever get sick of it I can always just spend like a week or something at the Station. Get back to modern times.

[Part of her thinks that even if she had grown up in the Enchanted Forest she wouldn't have liked doing any of those typical princess things, let alone her room. She would have probably pestered her father for sword fighting lessons rather than accompany her mother to balls or whatever. She's still having a little bit of trouble embracing them as a family, but she had called them mom and dad before she'd gone to leave Storybrooke as Pan's curse hit.

It was a start at least.]

Well, she's already taken her frustration out on me when we got here so maybe she'll have cooled down by now.

[cinnamoned]

Possibly. Fairies and the like weren't uncommon. A lot of things you'd find strange were, really, in the Enchanted Forest.

[Snow is well aware how out of her depth and confused all of this must make Emma. This and the Enchanted Forest. It's so far from what she knows, what she grew up with, after all.]

The Station seems the only part of this place that can manage technology. If that might help you adjust and feel more comfortable, then that's not a bad thing. I haven't been yet myself. I might join you at least the first time.

[Partly because there were certain comforts she got used to in Storybrooke herself and partly because they're family and at least one if not both her and Charming should be with their daughter.]

I know. I guess time will tell what she might make of this once she clears her head.

[Of course, Snow hadn't taken too kindly to Regina automatically assuming this to somehow be Emma's fault, even if she understands the worry for Henry.]

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[She'd trekked through a couple of forests when she was on the run, but that had been easy, in the real world. Emma didn't really know what was the real world anymore. Things up until Pan had seemed like she was slowly getting used to the idea of Storybrooke being not as weird as she perceived it to be. Emma turns her head to look at Snow, a small smile curling.]

I'd like that. They make really good hot chocolate. With cinnamon if you ask.

[God she misses hot chocolate. And coffee. The ale and the meade didn't make up for it in the castles. Emma pauses at that, wrapping her hand over her arm as she continued to trudge along beside her mother.]

At least Henry is safe back home. I wouldn't want him taking any part of this if they kidnapped him too.

[cinnamoned]

[There's a smile at that. Cinnamon. One of the many little things their family seemed to share, or at least, Emma and Henry seem to have inherited that little quirk of hers.]

A drink would be really good right now. With cinnamon, even. One of the things I know I'd miss from Storybrooke. We didn't really have anything like hot chocolate or coffee back home at the Enchanted Forest. In that sense, we were lucky to have some perks with Regina's curse. That is definitely one of them.

[There's a nod at that though, as they continue, Emma's hand lightly in hers and she gives it a faint squeeze of reassurance at her worry for Henry.]

I know. This place is dangerous. Even if the fairies and such might make you think twice, this is a war. There's magic. Powerful magic. Powerful enemies. I wouldn't want him here either. Neverland was....enough for him.