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Rapunzel doesn't sleep well, and she does wind up wrapped up in her hair overnight like a golden-cocooned butterfly. She's still dozing fitfully when the sun comes up.
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onerequest
"Darling, we've talked about what people are like, and the sort of bandit who'll climb up a tower in the middle of the woods to hide is mixed up with some people even worse than the norm -"
powershines
"But for all you knew he got lost looking for medicinal herbs the way you do and rock-climbs in his spare time, you don't know - everything you're saying is about what I know, and not about what you know -"
onerequest
"I'm making reasonable suppositions! Who's going to be out wandering through the woods going to tremendous effort to enter abandoned-looking buildings - or to meet shy girls who are leaning out the window, I suppose -"
powershines
"Wouldn't you? Not even if you came home early and I was missing, you wouldn't? Not ever, even if you had no idea where I was and thought I'd been legitimately kidnapped, it wouldn't cross your mind to check."
powershines
"If you thought someone might have literally bundled me up, dropped me out the window, and made off with me because they had no regard for my well-being, you wouldn't check?"
onerequest
"...All right, this once, I did peek just to make sure you thought you knew what you were doing -"
onerequest
"Fine. I was hoping to address this part in more congenial circumstances, but you are aware that 'you're a missing princess and one day you'll rule the whole country, come be welcomed as such, I'll help you escape from the evils of food and shelter and a loving mother because I think the royal family is so terribly nice even though I have literally just stolen a priceless sentimental object from them' is the most transparent foolishness of all time? You weren't convinced yourself. You were half-hoping I'd catch up and rescue you."
hisowninvention
"Everything I told you is still true," he says. "And you've learned plenty more since you left the tower. You said yourself, I couldn't have faked what I got from Vlad."
powershines
"So I just happen to look more like the queen than like you and he was taking advantage well in advance of having a way to prove that?"
hisowninvention
"All we have to do is go to the city, talk to some people or go straight to the king and queen, and you don't have to take my word or hers," says Rolan. "That's why you came in the first place, isn't it? To find out for sure, for yourself?"
powershines
"How's the search for somewhere safe where I can help people going, Mother?" murmurs Rapunzel. "Any end in sight?"
powershines
"I don't think I am. I'm going to find out."
And Rapunzel picks up her pile of hair and marches in the direction Rolan was leading her earlier.
And Rapunzel picks up her pile of hair and marches in the direction Rolan was leading her earlier.
