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Hey, Wonderland. Henry Mills here. And I wanted to keep a running tally of all the monsters or villains that you know of from your world that could come here. And then note whether or not they have been here.

I'll need people's help since I've only been here a year and a half, and I'm not sure what was here before me. So, I'll go start:

Ice queens (but only evil ones) - One named Ingrid was here but left.

Dark One (any form)

Ogres

Peter Pan - he was here and left a while ago

Curses (any type, usually there are a lot of clouds that build up before hand)

Poison apples/spindles/pointy things

Dragons (but not all of them are bad so you have to be careful)

Cruella de Vil

Zelena (she's here. Hi, Zelena. Sorry you're on this list.)

Flying monkeys (but they're actually people so...I'm not sure what to do about that?)

King Arthur

Trolls

Mermaids (but NOT Ariel.)

There's probably more, anyone from home can add to this. But yeah, it just might be good to know what to be aware of?

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Why would monkeys fly? And what sorts of curses? Dark One seems to be a really vague term. Have you considered providing context? Seems more useful than a list.

Yeah, this was a bad idea I'm realizing? I came at it from my own point of view which was...dumb.

But anyway, monkeys definitely shouldn't fly. I have no idea why that's the animal hybrid anyone would pick to turn into. Curses could be anything from one to turn you into a version of yourself you're not, or making you sleep for a hundred years, or just taking away your memories. Usually you can tell when one's about to hit because there are a lot of really dark clouds that seem like they're going to swallow the town.

And Dark One...is well, in my world it's a darkness that's the oldest evil to exist. [He thinks he's getting this right, and he takes a deep breath.] It uses people as hosts to basically do...terrible things.

The oldest evil calls itself the Dark One? [She considers it, then shrugs.] In the Unknown, the greatest evil calls itself the Beast, so I suppose evil forces just aren't very creative.

[For some reason that makes Henry smile a little.]

Maybe because they use up all their creative energy thinking up ways to be terrible to people.

Like that's hard.

[Beatrice knows exactly how to be terrible to people. Really, it's a lot harder not to sometimes.]

[It actually would be kind of hard for Henry to be terrible to people easily, or to come up with ideas for it.]

We're you okay? I mean during the whole...zombie thing?

I'm always okay.

[She's good at looking out for herself. Harder to look out for other people.

....which is why it takes a fraction of a second too long for her to add:]

You?

I was okay. My family went out on a ship into clear air.

[It makes him nervous when people say they're great at taking care of themselves. He doesn't doubt her, not at all, but in his life, super confident people always go down eventually. He won't, however, say any of this out loud. He believes she's strong, and tough, and smart.]

Anyway, I'm glad. And I'll take note of this Beast thing. Hopefully it never shows up. Sounds pretty terrible.

We had an event with it already. Sort of.

Wait, we did?

[What in the world did he miss - probably because a parent was keeping him protected, but still.]

The tavern. When anyone stupid enough to leave died.

Ohhhh right. When my name was just 'The Author.' Definitely didn't go outside during that.

Glad I didn't. What made it so that our names were like that though?

[He's just curious; he had no real problem with it (considering it was his actual title) but it makes him wonder about her world a little.]

Apparently that's what they did in that tavern. I don't know, I wasn't allowed inside when we went there in our world.

Weird. Oh well whatever it was, it was kind of cool I guess. As far as events go, it was okay unless someone went outside, and since I never did, no big deal.

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