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I mean, it wouldn't be Wonderland if it wasn't complicated, right?

[ His face does soften though. ]

Well, we can talk about it, or not, whatever you want to do, but we can definitely eat our weight in food no matter what.

[Lup settles in comfortably next to the man, picking at a fry for a moment before she finally answers.]

So, long story short, my twin brother got all of his memories of me wiped before he popped into this place. It's been a few months and we just can't find anythin' to bring 'em back. He can recognize we're totally identical, but like, his mind was fucked with enough that he can't understand when I say 'sister' or 'twin'.

So, it's complicated and weird. And pretty unfair. Makes all the holidays kinda shitty.

That's...I mean, yeah. That's pretty terrible.

[ It kind of makes his crap not seem as bad. ]

Is it magic? I mean, were they wiped by magic? Because if so, my mom's pretty powerful, I could always see if she'd give an assist.

Kinda. [The story is so convoluted, she just doesn't have the energy to put it all out there today, but Lup can try to shorten it down to key facts and details.]

It's because of a magical creature, a voidfish. This thing we found that eats up memories. Anything it vores on gets erased from the minds of everyone and the only cure to combat that brainfog is to drink it's weird juices. Gross, I know. To kinda throw an example out there, my hubby and I played a song for the thing and gave it our sheet music. It gobbled up the paper and poof. Our song was gonezo. We like, knew we'd performed a song, but the actual notes were just gone.

So it's magic, kinda, but more complicated.

If the problem was just magic, I'd take care of it myself. [She pauses, to idly chew at a fry, rolling the man's words around in her head. To be honest, she's getting desperate for a cure at this point. It's been over six months of this crap.]

...But if you wanna chat with your ma, I wouldn't mind a second opinion.

Huh.

[ That just...wasn't what he was expecting at all, so he thinks about it, just letting himself think back to what he knows, if he's ever heard of anything like that before. ]

Wow, I...honestly don't know if there's ever been anything like that back home. And not because I've never heard of it? Because I have an issue with my memory too. If we ever came across anything like that, I definitely can't remember it at all. What I do know is that curses work a little differently than a voidfish. With a curse, it's not so much that everything is gone, it's more like it was....overridden. With new memories.

[ So, not quite the same, but still. ]

I'm sorry, Lup. That just...that sucks. I'll still talk to her though because Regina's seen more things in different realms than I think I've ever been told. Might not hurt to talk to her when you're ready.

[ The real person would probably be Rumplestiltskin, but he's not here so they have to take what they can get. ]

New memories...

[Yeah, that's definitely different than how the voidfish operates. In the case of her brother, his brain had to adjust, had to struggle to fill in the gaps of his memories where Lup once existed. It turned a struggling childhood of the two of them against the rest of the world into a lonely existence of only him, with not a single other soul to trust. Taako's still Taako, sure, but he isn't the man she spent two centuries with, so much of him changed by the loss of her.

Maybe that's what is worst of all. Lup hates seeing her twin this closed off and cynical, untrusting of everything and everyone, including her. He shouldn't be like this.]

Thanks, Henry. [It's soft and surprisingly sincere, for her.] Maybe I will. Chat with her, that is. [She's trying not to put too much hope into it, but it's impossible for her spirits to not lighten at the idea of someone else to talk to. Maybe they'll know.]

Your memory is all fucked up with too? And not from Wonderland, I'm guessing? You got cursed?

Yeah, not from Wonderland. Home has a lot of cursing and revenge between people and others just tend to get caught up in it. Luckily, I've been in Wonderland so long I know who my parents are because they've been here, too. But if I didn't have that? I wouldn't know at all.

[ It's confusing and complicated, he knows. ]

Sounds just as complicated as my place. I knew talkin' to you was a good idea. We have more in common than I thought.

You've got a big family around these parts, huh? All of 'em magic users or just some?

Just three, really. Both my moms, and my grandfather. In our world, he's uh...the oldest magic? Fairytales took part of his story so you might know of him as Rumplestiltskin? If you do at all, that's more of an obscure one-off story.

The oldest magic? That sounds bomb as fuck.

[Very prestigious. And a little spooky. Lup likes the sound of it.]

Can't say I have, but never really delved much into fairytales as a kid. [No books or home for that to happen.] But I'll check with my pal, see if she's heard of 'im. Cuz that would be pretty rad.

So your grandpa's all famous, huh? What about you? He musta passed some of that magic down to you, right?

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