The Return, cont’d
In FTL, Bae calls for the ruel ghorm. The Blue Fairy appears and immediately recognizes him as a kid in trouble. “There is good magic and dark magic and I am on the right side.” As soon as Bae says his father is the Dark One, BF says she can’t change him back but she can send him someplace where he can’t use his magic. She assures Bae it’s not a jail. “What ails your father is specific to our world. His powers do not belong here.” Does this mean no Dark Ones exist outside FTL? Does it mean that in another place, the Dark One’s magic would “belong”?
She says the only way Rumple can “escape this wretched curse” is to go to a “land without magic.” Bae is up for the challenge: he will go anywhere to help his father. “You are the part of him that keeps him human, ” she praises. She gives Bae a magic bean, explaining that there are other beans like it but they’ve been lost. “It will save you both,” she promises.
Bae returns home excited; Rumple looks annoyed by the news of the bean. He recognizes the name “ruel ghorm” as the Blue Fairy and points out that fairy magic “doesn’t mix well with what I am.” He doesn’t want to go to the land wthout magic, where he would be “powerless …weak.” Bae reminds him of their deal and he reluctantly accedes.