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[It’s taken Hook a while to type out the message. What business do letters have being in some strange, nonsensical order? What sort of alphabet goes from Q to M instead of A to Z? It’s bloody confusing, but he’s managed, at last, to type out his message on the automatic writing mechanism he found in his pocket. It seems to have some sort of magical ability to show images and produce sounds too, but he has yet to figure those ones out.

The message is short and a bit stilted. He’s not used to having to hunt so hard for each letter, and finding advanced punctuation or capital letters is beyond him. But it gets the point across.]

to whom it may concern ive found myself on strange shores and could use information should it be available. the name is captain hook. im supposed to be in new york. does anyone know how to get there? i need to find emma swan. it is very important. sincerely, hook

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[Oh dear. This one clearly hasn't had much exposure to technology.]

That's how it works. Time doesn't pass back home while we're trapped here. It takes some getting used to.

[If you're not a time traveler, anyway.]

You might want to hit the shift key again.

IT WONT MAKE THE WORDS BIGGER AGAIN?

Hitting shift once will capitalize just one letter, but if you hit it twice then you end up with all capitals.

[This is truly happening. She's teaching a pirate how to use a smart phone.]

[HE NEEDS IT. They don't have smartphones in Neverland.]

how do you make sure only to hit it once?

[What kind of question is that? Martha's answer is a bit more delayed as she tries to figure out what he's even asking.]

Just tap the button. Don't hold it down or anything, just hit shift and then release.

[Touch screens do take some getting used to.]

you can hardly qualify anything on this blasted device as a button

It's a touch screen! You'll get used to it.

[Admire that perfect typing.]

So you're really a pirate, then?

aye. they dont have touch screens where i come from. or electricity.

Then you're not from Storybrooke. Not like the others.

ive been to storybrooke. but i was never cursed.

If you weren't part of the curse, then how did you end up there?

[Everyone else Martha's heard of who was a part of Storybrooke was also a part of that curse. How did Hook break the rules?]

magic obviously.

[Sorry he's a jerk.]

there are other ways to travel between realms. easier ways one might say.

Magic of your making, or someone else's?

[Martha's heard a bit about how magic works where Emma comes from, and the majority of it hasn't been good. Chances are that there had been some downside involved in Hook's journey.]

someone else. i have no magic.

Why do I get the feeling Regina had something to do with this?

no actually. her mother had a hand in the first trip though.

[Of course it runs in the family. Given how much the blood passed on from parent to child seems to matter in these fairy tales, Martha isn't surprised.]

And why were you going there? To find someone?

yes. [Find them and kill them. But that was a long time ago.] the first time anyway.

First time? This is getting more confusing by the second.

when travel between worlds is involved that ought to be presupposed.

Not really. Travel between worlds is something I'm used to. It's the magic part that's new to me.

how else could you do it

With a spaceship.

[Martha is well aware that she's about to blow a pirate's mind with this kind of information, but she can't help it. She wants to see what his reaction will be, and in a place like Wonderland he's bound to hear even madder things.]

[.....]

whats a spaceship

Just what it sounds like. A ship that can fly through space! That means it can travel to other planets.

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