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Princess Rapunzel’s feet drug against the floor as she walked back from the throne room. Rain beat against the windows of the palace. A maid was mopping up another leak. 

No one had come for the day’s business, which was just as well. She didn’t really feel like trying to figure things out for people right now. It used to be a fun challenge, but not any more. 

Eugene said it was because of the rain. It had rained for a couple of weeks on their adventure to the Dark Kingdom but this was different somehow. The first few days had been exciting because the rain was so intense it had caused some flooding in the kingdom, but that was under control now. Some people had to be evacuated and some homes had been lost but they could be replaced, the people were safe. 

For the first two weeks people tried to go about their business as normal, more or less. They had had to scale down the holiday celebration because the fields were too soft for setting things up, and the palace courtyard wasn’t really big enough, and the few people that came, left quickly. 

Now everyone stayed inside as much as possible. It was just too wet to do anything. Rapunzel slowly climbed the steps to her room. Pascal gave her some encouragement from time to time as he ducked under her short brown hair. 

She considered making something as she ran her fingers along the edge of her desk, but there wasn’t really anything she wanted to make. She put her crown down on its pillow.

From her room’s window she could barely see the edge of the island much less the mainland. The world was a cold, wet grey. 

It was a cold that sunk into her bones, and a wet that made everything feel moist and clammy. 

Moving Cass’ latest letter from her book, Rapunzel picked up her current book from the nightstand and wrapped herself up tightly in her comforter. Pascal made himself comfortable and they cuddled down into the book. 

“Oh man, it is wet out there!” Eugene said as he came in. He’d been saying that for a long time now. 

She just kinda looked up at him.

“Is everyone okay, sunshine?” He asked kindly.

She shrugged. “I don’t know. I’m so tired but I’m not sleepy. I can’t seem to do anything. No one came for audiences today. Is everything alright out there?”

“Everything is as normal as it can be for all this rain. According to Xavier we’ve received as much rain in these three weeks as we normally do in three years. No home homes or building are threatened and Varian’s water diverters around the mills are holding. 

“Xavier and Varian have been talking, this may be an effect of the Demanitus Device. Changing the weather those times may have done something that caused this rain to balance things out. Not like we can use the device again since it was destroyed but things should return to normal eventually. Xavier went on about legends of volcanos changing the weather in the past. So there is some credence to his idea. We just have to wait it out. It won’t last forever.”

“Okay. For some reason it feels so hard though.” Rapunzel said. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’ve been sad before, but this feels so different. Am I different now that I’m not the SunDrop anymore?”

“Hey, Sunshine. It’s okay. We haven’t seen the sun in a while and it is making a lot of people sad or angry. It happens. But the sun will come out again and there’ll be sunshine for all of us and we’ll be happy again. You know?”

Rapunzel gave him a smile and reached out an arm to hug him but the hug was squishy because of his wet uniform.

“Eww, you’ve soaked.”

Oh, wow... That’s... Definitely strange! What a nice dog, tho lmao

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That’s what I’m hoping too. And I’ll go even so far to say that’s sort of what I’m expecting to happen. They wouldn’t have specifically said Cap was out searching for them if there wasn’t eventually going to be a payoff. 

Though I feel like Cass is a little beyond getting “talked down” at the moment. And honestly she needs to come to the realization that what she’s doing is wrong on her own. She shouldn’t need someone to tell her that what she did to Rapunzel and everyone else was wrong. Or that using the moonstone to do... whatever it is she’s doing is dangerous and could be risking more lives. 

You do realize that makes unsense. You would think that if someone needs you they would treat you better not worse. The only logical thing to do is leave.