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Well, that was particularly spectacular, even by Wonderland's standards.

[drier than the friggin' Sahara. and whether it's truly over or not, Gold has other issues on his mind.]

I thought we might be done with flesh-eating beasts after the Jabberwocky was felled, but clearly we required an encore. [and speaking of encores..]

Which brings me to my real point. Where I'm from, seeing the future or even knowing the future does not enable you to prevent it. Try as one might, the more you attempt to sort out the puzzle, the more the pieces tend to fall into place, precisely as they meant to. Bearing that in mind, I have to wonder if we've truly prevented the terrible future that was spoken of last year or if we've merely locked it into place.

Of course, Wonderland has never followed the rules any particular realm sets for magic. It picks and chooses as it wishes. Strange, isn't it? All these different worlds, all these different types of magic, and so many of these events hearkening back from our own worlds. It does make one wonder about the true nature of Wonderland.

[a brief pause] Something to think about.

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I have yet to see anything from my world. [ An "event," as Gold has called it. ] But to imagine that any must live with those... monsters--

[ Dany shakes her head, looking stricken. ]

They are like the giants of stories, and I never thought-- never imagined that I might see one. Would that I had not.

We seem to be learning a great deal about where each of us comes from through these events, however horrifying it might be. I'm certain the two gentleman who led the attacks wished we had never seen them as well.

Has any of your Misthaven come through to the mansion yet? I should think it would, with all of its magic.

[ As she understood it, the place was teeming with magic. She imagines streets of maegi and priests and enchanters... and doesn't like the image. ]

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And if the future is simply wrong? What then? It is pointless to live in fear that it may come true.

[ Josette is An Expert™ on this shit, okay. Even as she has no idea that her written future was literally just about to come true. Irony. Hilarious. ]

What do you mean by these - these "worlds?"

The future's rarely wrong, my dear, but how we interpret what we believe to be the future just might be.

[a chuckle.] Well, we're not all from the same world, strange as that may be. [to anyone but an OUAT character, lbr.]

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If thinking about it gets us even a little bit closer to home, then I'm all for it.

[Said as wryly as possible, naturally. They may not be best pals, but they're something like family now, for better or for worse, and thinking about the nature of Wonderland and its magic has taken up a lot of Emma's time since she first got here.]

Regardless of the Jabberwocky's presence, that future has changed. Some of the people who were a part of it are gone, other people have taken their place, and the monster hasn't gotten to eat the Vorpal Shield-- I can't say if what's coming is better or worse, but it has to be different.

That Core is the source of everything here, Ms. Swan. Every possibility, every... event... It all must begin there.

[and people come and go so quickly here. who's to say tom hanniger won't drop back in on valentine's day and stay.]

So if we truly want a future where we're not trapped in Wonderland for better or for ill, we need to consider how best to approach things, knowing that.

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Yet if one is wise enough, one can use the future to make sure they're at the right place when the pieces fall.

[ namely, storybrooke maine. ]

wouldn't you agree?

True words, but I'm afraid I was a bit late in receiving any visions of the future here. Perhaps that's why I feel so uncertain here- not knowing is almost as much of a curse as knowing.

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You truly believe it.

[ not accusing or angry, more curious. ]

that some things are truly in the stars? a destiny one cannot avoid?

I've been witness to the fickle hand of destiny more times that I'd like to admit.

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And yet, even with our personal experience when it comes to powerful magic picking and choosing from across the worlds, we're no closer.

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What are you actually thinking about?

[Don't even front, Gold.]

I'm thinking that our attempts at victory over Wonderland have been met with very little success and perhaps we've been approaching the matter the wrong way.

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What happened last year? I was not here for this.

I wasn't either, but, fortunately, Ms. Swan and Mr. Crowley filled me in upon my arrival here. It seems last year, we were visited by visions of our future selves who came from a Wonderland devastated by the Jabberwocky. It was believed, I think, that the attack that started it all was meant to occur just last month.

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[Okay, so she totally thought this was about her up until the bit about last year and Wonderland. She wasn't here for that, so it clearly can't be about her.

Unless there was some sort of prophecy about the Wicked Witch of the West showing up in Wonderland, but as full of herself as she is, she can admit that if there was, someone would've said something at some point.]

What terrible future? Haven't heard anything about that.

[Not about Wonderland anyway. She's heard about the terrible future in which she loses, but that's just a bunch of made up nonsense.]

[not everything is about you, zelena. :||]

The utter destruction of Wonderland, the Jabberwocky running amok... To be honest, I missed the finer details by arriving in Wonderland much too late, but I've been told the basic idea behind it.

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[Toby smirks a little.]

I had a terrible future, once. Turns out she's a better cook than me.

[She misses May.]

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Pardon?

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What... terrible future?

[ All this talk of futures hits all of Remus' buttons, especially with the Marauders' little side project of trying to prevent James' and Lily's deaths. ]

A Wonderland on the brink of destruction is the gist I received, where the Jabberwocky is a much more looming, everpresent threat.

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Where I'm from, we've managed to change things from what people saw of the future.

[ Thankfully, because otherwise Crowley wouldn't even be alive. ]

Things have already changed here from what we saw of our future last year. What I wonder is more about who or what thought it prudent to show us that future.

A cautionary tale, perhaps. [Emma confirmed as much, but he's still wary.] Someone clearly wanted us to take the Jabberwocky seriously as a threat.

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I don't believe for even a second that the future can't be changed or prevented.

[Spoken, of course, with the conviction of someone who has a future that needs to change.]

That being said, it seems Wonderland's had a grand time running us around in circles - and I say that as someone who was here the last time the Jabberwocky attacked before this. There were no advance warnings then, no hints of the future. It just appeared and we had to fight it as best we could. It wanted us to prepare for the Jabberwocky this time. By the time it turned up though, half of those who had terrible futures coming had already left Wonderland, and new people have turned up. Things were never going to be exactly the way they were shown to people.

What I'm saying is, I wonder if that was never set in stone in the first place, and that maybe Wonderland was counting on people who had heard about the Jabberwocky before to fuel the fire and confirm it was a threat, even when the pieces stopped adding up. That's not to say it wouldn't be completely horrible if the Jabberwocky won, but I wonder if that future everyone got a glimpse of was ever actually real, or just another of Wonderland's tricks so we would fight the creature.

[He's pretty annoyed, honestly. It led them on and he completely fell for it, and it makes him nervous about his own plans.]

[bless u, James. now we're getting somewhere.]

It would add up to what we know of Wonderland. It was just one more game to stir us into action and move the pieces along. One that worked, because regardless of whether or not a person believes a future can be changed, the fact remains that once presented with a terrible fate, everyone will rise up to change it.

The real question is... who precisely is the chessmaster here?

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