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“You mean like Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan and Captain Hook, Alice in Wonderland, Jack in the Beanstalk, and Sleeping Beauty? I mean I had to read them to myself, I practically used them to escape reality.” Colin tilted his head, why was she asking about fairy tales, technically he was considered part fae, but they had nothing to do with fairy tales, except in Greek stories.

“I…well the stories mention magic in them, but the magic here is much more aggressive, you don’t go to sleep if you are cursed…you die, and well I know that there are other worlds out there, so I guess what I’m saying is…the fairy tales are kinda used to hide the magic in this world.” Colin shrugged and looked back at her, what was her game? Every fiber of his being was saying that she was meaning more then simple questions, almost as if she was probing for her own answers.

Regina snickered a bit and nodded as he spoke. “My. My. You sound like my son. He was quite the avid reader as well. Perhaps, you know more than you might think,” she drawled, quirking a brow as she tilted her head towards him and shifted in her chair so that she now crossed her legs. “But, sometimes it’s about reading between the lines sometimes, wouldn’t you agree?" 

She knew she was being cruel. But she was the Evil Queen after all. And, besides, she wasn’t going to spill this town’s secrets all at once and, especially not to a stranger. He had to put the pieces together himself. That was the only way she could tell him. However, as he tried to put it together, shrugging off his guess, she swallowed back her laughter and nodded once more, simply grinning at him. "I suppose. Although as you mentioned before, not all magic is from this world either,” she almost muttered, jumping up from her desk chair and eyeing a thick leather-bound book, Henry’s book, on a bookshelf in the back of the room. She retrieved it with a sense of delicacy, planning to put it back in its spot for Henry’s return. However, as she brought it back to her desk, she held it up in front of Colin, the title Once Upon a Time staring back at Colin. “Have you read this one before?” she swallowed, her tone more serious this time. She doubted he had, but she couldn’t be too certain, so she held it there for him to look at as she waited for him to respond.