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[tower_bound]

[Okay, you can do this, Rapunzel, you can do this. Just follow the directions, it can't be hard. Well, maybe not the saying hello to people part, though successfully turning on the odd communication... thing... is proving to be quite the challenge.

In fact, it may or may not have taken her tripping over her own hair to hit the correct button; inattentive pacing isn't conductive to grace, but it seems to do the trick in terms of technological difficulties.

She sits up and takes a moment of looking quizzically at the device, turning it around, peering at the screen from every possible angle. Behind her are trees and grass; it should be pretty clear she's calling from somewhere in the park.

But is it on? What is it doing? Does she have to press anything else? She talks now, correct?]

Am... am I doing this right?

Hello?

Comments

[tower_bound]

You're definitely right. Though it's still kind of strange to me that everyone here seems to be so nice.

[After all, she had to blackmail Flynn into doing the decent thing and helping her, and she had to get through to the thugs and pull on their heartstrings for them to show their other sides. Here? There's none of that.]

I guess I have a lot of learning to do.

[freezespirited]

I can see why if you thought it was cruel. The only way for you to figure it out is if you learn. But I think it's more of a mix than an extreme of the two.

[tower_bound]

I'm glad I haven't seen too much "bad". It makes me wonder if Mother just has bad luck with bad people; for as long as I can remember, she always said that the world was a horrible place.

[freezespirited]

Maybe she had some bad experiences. Why else would she say the world is horrible? Still, not one person's experiences are ever the same. There are a lot of good people too.

[tower_bound]

[She nods in agreement.]

That's exactly what I discovered once I left the tower. The good people, that is.

Still... I'm sure Mother had her good reasons. She'd never lie to me.