[ When he looks at her like that it raises questions. He's studying her like he's trying to puzzle her out, making Rapunzel raise an eyebrow, smirking crookedly, but before she can ask he says what's apparently on his mind, and her expression falters.
She could answer with the obvious, that she's not supposed to talk about it, but maybe it's just been too much, waking up in a different time, it might as well be another WORLD as far as she's concerned. Gothel has been even more absent than usual, too, and she'd lost Pascal, so it's been a lot to try to deal with.
Carefully sweeping her hair to one side and oving to pull herself up, she perches on the railing of the balcony, still watching him as she crosses her ankles one over the other. ]
Because... people would try to take the magic for themselves. It happened once, when I was still just a baby.
[ Reaching up and turning her head so that he can see the back of her neck she draws the curtain of hair away, revealing the single, short chocolate brown lock there. ]
They tried to cut it, but when they did it lost its power. Mother was afraid that someone else might try to take me for themselves, so we've lived in hiding ever since. If you want to know the truth, before we moved here I'd never even met another person before. That must sound pretty strange.
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She could answer with the obvious, that she's not supposed to talk about it, but maybe it's just been too much, waking up in a different time, it might as well be another WORLD as far as she's concerned. Gothel has been even more absent than usual, too, and she'd lost Pascal, so it's been a lot to try to deal with.
Carefully sweeping her hair to one side and oving to pull herself up, she perches on the railing of the balcony, still watching him as she crosses her ankles one over the other. ]
Because... people would try to take the magic for themselves. It happened once, when I was still just a baby.
[ Reaching up and turning her head so that he can see the back of her neck she draws the curtain of hair away, revealing the single, short chocolate brown lock there. ]
They tried to cut it, but when they did it lost its power. Mother was afraid that someone else might try to take me for themselves, so we've lived in hiding ever since. If you want to know the truth, before we moved here I'd never even met another person before. That must sound pretty strange.