@RumplesGirl wrote:
If Rumple went to NL for the squid ink then why did Regina? We know she has a certain mermaid problem, but what caused it and why go to NL? What did she need there?
Maybe Regina wanted squid ink for herself, so she had a certain mermaid fetch it for her, and in exchange gave that mermaid legs. Regina might have wanted the squid ink to write her own spells. In 2×9, Snow White said she had witnessed Cora blow on the pages of her spell book to activate the magic, which is how she knew to blow on the parchment Rumple had written upon, which opened up the cell. This also indicates to me those spells in Cora’s spell book were also written in squid ink, since it was activated in the same way that Rumple’s spell was activated.
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