mother knows best

[powershines]

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]

"I see."

[powershines]

"He's been very helpful."

[onerequest]

"I'm sure, darling, but can you tell me all about it at home?"

And there it is.

[powershines]

"We're going to the city."

[hisowninvention]

[onerequest]

"...You're going with a strange man who you've never met before just yesterday, to the city? To whatever - bolthole or hideout he has there? Rapunzel, that makes no sense."

[powershines]

[hisowninvention]

Okay, maybe now he's making a face.

[onerequest]

"Do you realize how lucky you've been? Maybe this one doesn't really wish you harm, I don't know and neither do you, but do you think you're going to be able to charm all his dangerous friends? His dangerous enemies? Do you think you'll hold his attention long enough to get an escort all the way to wherever you think you're going instead of being auctioned off - for your hair or worse -"

[powershines]

Well, now Rapunzel is crying.

But she hasn't taken a step towards Gothel yet.

[hisowninvention]

"...Rapunzel..."

[powershines]

Rapunzel looks at him.

[onerequest]

"Rapunzel. This behavior is insane. You've been fortunate enough not to run into any - irrecoverable problems - yet. Not to fall into the hands of anyone more than a day and a half's worth of impatient - yet. Why didn't you talk to me if you wanted this badly to go out and see the forest? We could have talked about it, sweetheart. Maybe not the city, that's nonsense, but you could have looked at some trees up close if you wanted to so badly that you'd go charging off with a stranger."

[hisowninvention]

"Do you want to just - keep going?" he asks Rapunzel. "We could."

[powershines]

"I - I -"

[onerequest]

"Come home, darling. We'll talk about this and come up with something safe to do instead of - this."

[powershines]

"I'm..."

[hisowninvention]

"You decided to go to the city," says Rolan. "And you think things through. We can just go."

[powershines]

"How did you know I just met him? How do you know he hasn't been visiting me while you're gone for months?"

[onerequest]

"Oh, darling, I think I would have noticed -"

[powershines]

"But maybe you wouldn't. How do you know? What makes you think his friends are dangerous? I slept in an inn where there were a lot of them all last night and nothing happened."

[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]

"You read my -"