"I suppose that's why you lost Dad in the first place, right? Because the Darkness was driving him away?" He hated to bring it up and he usually wouldn't but it was the first thing he thought of and he didn't want to dig too deeply for a topic. Plus, if he could learn how Rumplestiltskin had been able to keep the Darkness at bay for hundreds of years, maybe he could too.

"Am I going to look like the descriptions of you in the book? All scaly and...well...like a crocodile?" It would be half cool and half weird and he was glad that the vision hadn't said anything for a short time.