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[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]

"My..."

Rapunzel hesitates because for all she was angry with Gothel, she...still loved the woman. She'd raised her, and despite the reasons why she was literally all that Rapunzel knew.

"My adopted mother, I suppose."

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[needsnobottle]

"Ah." There's an awkward silence, because...Tammy's never known anyone that was adopted. "So how long have you known she was your adopted mom?" Is this an impolite question? Possibly, but it seems obvious that this is at least part of the problem Rapunzel is fighting at the moment.

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[70ftandcounting]

"...Do you remember when we all had those strange dreams?" She twists her hands together.

"It...it was then. That's when I knew."

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[needsnobottle]

Oh. Yeah.

[Tammy didn't like remembering that dream. Normally hers were fuzzy, indistinct, easily forgotten...but this one felt sharp. Felt like an etching, right into her memory. A vision of the future with all the emotional punch of a memory of the past. Just thinking of the cold, icy eyes that had held her captive, and violently ripped the djinn from her body...and that ear-splitting, deafening scream as the other spoke and destroyed Antalyon...it made her head swim.]

So that's what you dreamed about.

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[70ftandcounting]

....Yes. I...did.

[She doesn't sound...happy.]

It...wasn't a pleasant dream. Not really.

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[needsnobottle]

I'm not sure any of us got pleasant dreams that day, but I didn't take a poll.

[She reaches out to lightly touch Rapunzel's hand, squeeze it gently as a small signal of comfort--should the other girl need anything more Tammy will happily give it. Guarded as she's been, Rapunzel has somehow found a way in, and Tammy can't bring herself to try and push her out.]

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[70ftandcounting]

I...didn't either, but... [She sighs, and returns the little squeeze.]

It just really opened my eyes to a lot of things. That's...that's all.

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[needsnobottle]

Yeah. Yeah, and that's...that'll take it out of you.

[Her thumb strokes Rapunzel's knuckles but otherwise she makes no other move, her grasp firm but just light enough to allow the other girl to pull away, if she wanted.]