powershines | mother knows best

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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From:

hisowninvention

"...Rapunzel..."

From:

powershines

Rapunzel looks at him.

From:

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."

From:

hisowninvention

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

From:

powershines

"I - I -"

From:

onerequest

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

From:

powershines

"I'm..."

From:

hisowninvention

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

From:

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?"

From:

onerequest

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

From:

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."

From:

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 -"

From:

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 -"

From:

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 -"

From:

powershines

"You read my -"

From:

onerequest

"Rapunzel, I would never."

From:

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."

From:

hisowninvention

From:

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?"

From:

onerequest

"...All right, this once, I did peek just to make sure you thought you knew what you were doing -"

From:

powershines

"Then drop the pretense, Mother."

From:

hisowninvention

From:

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."