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[disheartening]

Tranquility.

[ The greeting comes from a woman who is longing about in a chair, all heels, business wear and red lips. She looks calm or at least, calm enough given the situation. There is a smile on her lips, as if this amuses her on a certain level.

But if her smile is silk her eyes are steel. ]

Quite a predicament, this is. My arrival seemed to be in tune with the message from our -

[ a faux! pensive pause ]

-- Graceful companion.

I will not ask of how one leaves or why are we here, as I have no intention to waste your time or my own. I will make one inquiry.

[ her voice turns strict, as if she is used to be making inquiries. ]

I am in search of a child. His name is Henry Mills, he is ten years old. If there is such a passenger aboard this ship, I would have him sent to me, I am his mother.

[ a pause; and then, another. ]

I would also ask of the portal through which we came here. I know all gain consciousness in what you call the couches. I mean to ask if we have knowledge of the portal through which we are transferred into the couches.

[ another smile, almost pleasant this time. ]

Much obliged.

[ and that would be all; there is a very limited amount of time in which Regina Mills can pretend to be nice. ]

Comments

video;

[disheartening]

What shall I consider myself when I am abducted, held away from my son and my town and against my will? An honored guest?

video;

[onsilksheets]

I didn't mean it like that. [Bela pauses.] It was a poor choice of words.

video;

[disheartening]

[ a tinge of a smirk. ]

Rephrase, by all means.

video;

[onsilksheets]

Rephrasing seems pointless now because you are being kept here against your will.

video;

[disheartening]

[ a smirk. ]

That I am. We all are, unless I am mistaken and some wish to stay here floating aimlessly in space.

video;

[onsilksheets]

I think that depends on the kind of lives they have back home. They might have it better here.

video;

[disheartening]

Truly unfortunate, indeed. I do hope you are not included in that specific group, miss Talbot.

[ the group who wants to stay does not interest her at all. Regina knows one thing, she must come back if it is the last thing she does; if others wish to stay, so be it. She is more interested in the ones who do not. ]

video;

[onsilksheets]

Definitely not. I have no desire to stay here; my life is back home, not on this ship.

video;

[disheartening]

Then we are in the same boat, or perhaps, the same spaceship.

video;

[onsilksheets]

I wish I could tell you that it gets easier the longer you're here.

video;

[disheartening]

It is alright, miss Talbot. I did not think it was. That is the issue with such prisons. They are always a prison, even after years.

[ and she only ever wanted to be free. the irony. ]

video;

[onsilksheets]

Agreed. You can dress this place up however you like but it's always going to be a prison. You're held against your will without much hope of returning home.