[Well that's...convenient. She was thinking the four of them were probably split up on purpose, but having Killian in the next room simplifies things. By her count, there are twenty rooms on this floor and at least forty other captives in the hotel. It's hard to get accurate numbers when everything they don't want them to see is "under construction". Too many things are locked away around here, and if she assumes the worst (just because she can), that means they'll only be unlocked with more arrivals. Whatever this trap is, they caught it in it's early stages. No matter how fast and loose their captors play it with the housing situation, none of this bodes well for them.
If she was with Neal, or Regina, Emma would put on a brave face. Neal needs someone to believe that they're all going to get out of here together. He's afraid to hope for that possibility, but she isn't. It's not the first time she's thought he was gone and found out otherwise, so maybe this makes it less final for her than it still is for him. Hang around with her parents enough and you start to buy into the idea of happiness, even if it's always just out of reach. She wants that for Neal and Henry and she intends to fight like hell to get it. She wants it for Regina too, although she's noticed that Henry's other mother is lacking her usual confidence.
Not having magic here is harder on Regina than it is on Emma. It's a struggle for Regina to lose it, and a struggle for Emma to have it. It'd come in handy here, but she's willing to bet that's why they took it away. No advantages allowed. For someone who doesn't have years of experience in using it, the loss isn't horrible. She can tell herself that it's temporary, that magic just doesn't work here, and that satisfies the nagging feeling that she's already lost a part of herself to this. She can live without it, so she'll deal. Regina hasn't really had to do that since the curse was broken, and twenty-eight years of peace and quiet on her own terms had to have been a lot more tolerable than being trapped and vulnerable.
It just turns out that even with the better end of the deal, Emma is struggling with all of this.]
No, - at least nothing aside from us being trapped here.
[She takes a breath and shoves her hands into her pockets, searching his eyes to try to get a read on him. Seeing Neal again couldn't have been easy, but she just keeps telling herself his death is something they can fix. They have to, it's what they do, isn't it?]
Can I come in?
[A quick peek behind him reveals he's as unnerved by this place as she is, but Emma hasn't used her room as the testing ground. There are plenty of other places in the hotel to take apart, she wasn't going to start with the place where she's expected to stay for the foreseeable future.]
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[Well that's...convenient. She was thinking the four of them were probably split up on purpose, but having Killian in the next room simplifies things. By her count, there are twenty rooms on this floor and at least forty other captives in the hotel. It's hard to get accurate numbers when everything they don't want them to see is "under construction". Too many things are locked away around here, and if she assumes the worst (just because she can), that means they'll only be unlocked with more arrivals. Whatever this trap is, they caught it in it's early stages. No matter how fast and loose their captors play it with the housing situation, none of this bodes well for them.
If she was with Neal, or Regina, Emma would put on a brave face. Neal needs someone to believe that they're all going to get out of here together. He's afraid to hope for that possibility, but she isn't. It's not the first time she's thought he was gone and found out otherwise, so maybe this makes it less final for her than it still is for him. Hang around with her parents enough and you start to buy into the idea of happiness, even if it's always just out of reach. She wants that for Neal and Henry and she intends to fight like hell to get it. She wants it for Regina too, although she's noticed that Henry's other mother is lacking her usual confidence.
Not having magic here is harder on Regina than it is on Emma. It's a struggle for Regina to lose it, and a struggle for Emma to have it. It'd come in handy here, but she's willing to bet that's why they took it away. No advantages allowed. For someone who doesn't have years of experience in using it, the loss isn't horrible. She can tell herself that it's temporary, that magic just doesn't work here, and that satisfies the nagging feeling that she's already lost a part of herself to this. She can live without it, so she'll deal. Regina hasn't really had to do that since the curse was broken, and twenty-eight years of peace and quiet on her own terms had to have been a lot more tolerable than being trapped and vulnerable.
It just turns out that even with the better end of the deal, Emma is struggling with all of this.]
No, - at least nothing aside from us being trapped here.
[She takes a breath and shoves her hands into her pockets, searching his eyes to try to get a read on him. Seeing Neal again couldn't have been easy, but she just keeps telling herself his death is something they can fix. They have to, it's what they do, isn't it?]
Can I come in?
[A quick peek behind him reveals he's as unnerved by this place as she is, but Emma hasn't used her room as the testing ground. There are plenty of other places in the hotel to take apart, she wasn't going to start with the place where she's expected to stay for the foreseeable future.]