[video]

[70ftandcounting]

[Rapunzel is shown sitting on her bed, book propped up to show her cross legged and toying with her long, blond hair.]
 
Have any of you ever had something that bound you? That..just…kept you somewhere? Your entire life?
 
And then when you finally get away, when you think you’re free, you realize that you still aren’t free, because you have that one thing that still holds you in place?
 
[She looks up at her journal, eyes a little wet.]
 
There comes a day when you know that it’s time to really be free.
 
[She’s been at the Keep a year, today.
 
And now…now because of that truth, because of flashes of real memories she’s had since, she knows the truth. She knows everything.
 
And she knows what she has to do.]
 
Today is that day.
 
[She gets up, and shuts the book.]

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[70ftandcounting]

[She slips through it, and starts to head towards the outside.]

Don't forget your present.

[She saw the bottles, she knows what they are. Kevas let her get tipsy one time, so she's...aware of what it will do.

And that happy, giddy feeling she had?

She wants it now, because God is she trying not to cry.]

[abstinentzombie]

Right.

[Once Rapunzel is on her way out, Kloe goes back inside to grab the bottles. She shuts the door behind her and then catches up to Rapunzel.]

How're you holding up?

[70ftandcounting]

[She's waiting for Kloe by the door. When she catches up, Rapunzel heads back toward to the bonfire.]

I'm...alright.

[drinkuntilidie]

[Kevas sighs and shakes head.]

If joo insist.

[At least she didn't hurt herself.]

Joo coulda ask fuh my help joo know.

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[needsnobottle]

Oooh. So no more magic? I get that.

[Tammy smiles a bit, indicating Rapunzel's hair with a vague motion of he hand toward the journal.]

Short hair looks good on you.

[70ftandcounting]

[She finally smiles.]

I know. But I needed to do this myself.

[drinkuntilidie]

[Kevas chuckles and ruffles her hair. It's going to take some time to her looking like this.]

Alright, I can undahstand dat.

[culinarybeast]

[NO WITH THE CRYING DAMN IT!]

What's the matter with ya?

[Audio]

[lightwithin]

So? It wasn't very nice.

[Audio]

[cellwave]

I already said I was sorry.

[abstinentzombie]

[Unconvinced Kloe is unconvinced.]

How 'alright' is alright?

[70ftandcounting]

[Tiny smile.]

I'm...very used to my hair. Not having it feels both good and bad.

[70ftandcounting]

You...remember what my hair could do?

[70ftandcounting]

Nothing.

Nothing at all.

[drinkuntilidie]

Glow a lot and heal mons. Dat be kinda hard t'ing to fuhget Sunshine.

[video]

[70ftandcounting]

Exactly. No more magic.

[Sigh.]

...Thank you, Tammy.

[70ftandcounting]

[She smiles.]

Exactly.

But...that dream...it triggered things...things I remembered.

[drinkuntilidie]

[A worried look appears on Kevas' face.]

Good t'ings I be hopin'.

[70ftandcounting]

The person I thought was my mother kidnapped me at birth from my real parents.

[She says this flatly.]

I remember that I am the lost princess that they send the lanterns up in honor of, every year.

[drinkuntilidie]

[Sounds like a bitch. Kevas will refrain from saying that out loud though.]

Whaddya know, my ray of Sunshine be a princess too.

[His smile returns to his face as he tries to keep the mood from falling too much.]

[70ftandcounting]

[Her face is still a hard line.]

She's been using me, my entire life, to keep herself young.

[drinkuntilidie]

[So much for that then.]

Den it be a good t'ing joo don't need her. Aftah all, joo been takin' care of joorself since jah got here.

[abstinentzombie]

[Kloe intentionally reaches a hand over to totally muss up Rapunzel's new short hair.]

I don't know how you managed to deal with it all. I've never had hair past my shoulders.

[Because length regulations.]

[video]

[needsnobottle]

[The sigh makes her arch an eyebrow, and Tammy deliberates a long time before she finally posts a reply to this. And there's a wariness in her eyes, as if she's not sure she even has the right to pursue this any further.]

You sure you're okay?

[70ftandcounting]

Your hair is very pretty.

[She says this distantly as she hauls her own long, brown trail of it up to the fire.]