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So many secrets aboard one ship and such a wonderful fate awaits those who try and solve them.

[ she's bothered, Regina. She likes knowing against who she plays and this uncertainty unnerves her. Evil queen or not, she takes no pleasure in children dying. She is sitting in her room, her jacket thrown on a chair next to her. So many questions and not one answer. ]

Asking for answers is a bit much, evidently. I'll ask this then, who do you believe have them on the ship, the two people who were here before and somehow are miraculously still present or the Red Cheshire Cat who has taken to smiling from the shadows?

All roads in Wonderland belong to the Queen of Hearts.

Who do the roads aboard the Tranquility belong to?

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Little hint from a piano player? Don't go asking about the bandersnatch.

[ guess who used lewis carroll to interrogate smiley? this dude. ]

Ah, the piano player again.

[ perhaps it pleases her to speak to him. Perhaps. ]

The bandersnatch. Why not, really? Will it crawl out of the darkness and savage its way though the ship again?

I didn't say the hybrids, I said the bandersnatch.

[ and usually it suits him just fine to not correct people on that. but: winter is coming, and all stark's other portentous speechifying. ]

Yet Alice's first sin was curiosity and when said not to ask of something, she did. Then.

[ let us pretend the Evil Queen is Alice. ]

Tell me of the bandersnatch.

Curiosity's a theme, around here.

...it's cheating, a bit, but I always did like that. The bandersnatch is-- a two parter, really.

[ neal that's not cool dude, spoiler alert. ]

A two parter.

[ really, neal? there better not be a 'to be continued'. ]

I'm listening.

Fast and clawed-- not always at once. And hiding in plain sight.

[ jesus neal come on. ]

Anything other than that isn't my place to say.

[ he can't say, oops. ]

Careful. The way you speak might make the charming people aboard go on a hunting trip, you make the being sound quite the beast.

[ and it is noted; another clue to the puzzle. She should find him and take his heart, should tear it out with the whole truth but she is careful. Careful with her magic and careful with exposing herself and so, just a smile that is evident in her voice. ]

Now, I also didn't say the wilds were its home.

[ neal's own game is a deep one; it's also not his own. ]

Of course not, home is where the heart is, I was careless to presume.

[ and a heart is what Regina wants. Fancy that. ]

Heart's a good word for it-- perceptive. Heart of the ship, and all that. The... hub of activity, even.

Hearts are a fickle thin, or so a million songs would let us think. It can be easily broken.

[ and what they don't know is how easy it can be crushed to nothing but sand. ]

Or rebuilt from the ashes just as easily at the first look from someone new, if we're going by the songs.

[ what they don't know is ( SPOILERS REDACTED ) ]

No heart can rise from ashes, piano man.

[ that at least she's certain of. ]

Oh, you'd be surprised about what can rise from the ashes around here.

[ you know that red grinch emote from plurk? RIGHT HERE ]

Let it rise and turn to ashes again. I don't care for it. There is darkness everywhere, better it being known than hidden.

[ and regina knows of darkness. Monsters are nothing when compared to people's souls. ]

Careful what you wish for, Miz Mills. [ just a tiny hint of a childhood spent in saint louis creeping into his voice there, because he's a douchebag. ] They tend to wobble a little on the dismount.

[ and he's disconnecting because prophecy done, mics gotta get dropped and so on ]

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