The less said on her the better. Gold, after all, had been trying to collect on an old deal related to her right up until Emma threatened to run him in for human trafficking. And in truth, she had been right and presented it to him in a way that the magic would accept in nullifying the contract.

And he got a favor out of it. And maybe that was what the whole thing was meant to build toward, given who it led him to.

"It's probably a good thing that it was difficult for outsiders to wander in. The eighties were a silly time to be trapped in. Probably a boon for Regina that she was not so circular as the rest of us or her wardrobe would have been made entirely of shoulder pads."