It sounds cruel, but it'd almost be better if there's nothing left.

( it'd be better that way, to not remember and not to understand what was happening. as for the rest of it, it's rather unnerving to think of many of their number has suffered the same. how many people had suffered this way? )

If you spent any time at all at the will of another, I wouldn't call it lucky. It was wrong whether you remember it or not.

( as for how he's free now... well, he doesn't really have to answer that. it's not going to help the Deemer anyway. still, why hold back when the rest was in the open? ) She crushed my heart. That's what she used to control me. ( Regina had been so angry by his abandonment, she'd killed him over using him anymore. now that he has memories, he can't even be surprised. didn't she always promise she'd kill him for leaving her? )