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[toldinthebook]

VIDEO.

What happened to the kids? [ Those are fantastic first words, Emma, but it's a valid question. Why? In the past couple of hours since she's arrived she's looked through the communicator logs, and from suddenly seeing lots of kids to there now being none? Weird. Very suspicious. Someone's in Good Guy mode already (always) ]

And why were they here? I didn't think that would happen. [ Not that she really knows a lot, minus her own deal with the Admiral. Would he do that? Well, Gold probably would, or not, she doesn't know, but she's suspicious. She doesn't like deals, not when there are things that could be magic involved. And kids. Protect the kids ]

Right. [ Moving on. Slowly. She didn't actually introduce herself, did she? ] I'm Emma, and hopefully I've figured this out and I'm not just talking to myself. [ It is very likely to happen ]

I guess being new is obvious, and I'm a Warden. [ One day this all may (fully) sink in ] As for this? I know what I'm doing. I've actually done it before [ Kind of ] so just... keep that in mind. [ Yeah. This is turning out to be the worst introduction. Way to go, Emma! ]

And if anyone's got a welcome pack? [ Does the job come with guides? Hidden benefits? Weekends? ] I'd appreciate it. [ And she's done. And can sit and wonder what the hell she just did ]

ACTION.

[ A little later in the day you may be lucky enough to run into one Emma Swan. Or at least a blonde woman that looks pretty lost. Or confused. It's actually both. She was trying to just check out the locations, get her bearings (the kitchen would actually be nice) except she got turned around. Or just lost, she didn't actually go backwards. Give a girl a hand? ]

Comments

[ichoosefight]

OS-19? That must have been... about a year ago?

[toldinthebook]

Somehow that doesn't sound long enough.

OS-19. Was that the place?

[ichoosefight]

What would sound better? Two years? [ That's about how long it's been since she got here. ]

Yup. It was a pretty tech-heavy world.

[toldinthebook]

I don't know. Time doesn't always help. [ Cynical much? ]

Did anything come back with you?

[ichoosefight]

Like OS-19 is even close to the worst thing that's ever happened to me.

For a little while I think I knew how to hack. It's all gone now. [ Shrug. ]

I still remember bits and pieces of my life there. It wasn't exactly pretty.

[toldinthebook]

If it's the worst thing that's happened I wouldn't expect it to be nice. [ She's had yet to be surprised about that one ]

How did you start remembering?

[ichoosefight]

Very suddenly. As soon as we landed, I had a whole other life in my head. And as soon as I was on the ship and we took off, it all came back.

[toldinthebook]

And you still remember everything from OS-19? Perfectly? [ Would that happen if the curse was broken? ]

[ichoosefight]

Not perfectly, no. It's just like the rest of my memories, only it's like it happened to someone else a long time ago.

[toldinthebook]

[ She's sponging all of this just in case ] Like a past life? Though I'm not really sure what that would feel like.

How many people have had that? Been assimilated?

[ichoosefight]

I wouldn't know. We don't have ports as often as we have floods. A whole lot of people fell over when we landed in that wasteland before. [ She has a lot of bad memories of the place, and she doesn't even have a proper name for it. ]