Very interesting points slurpeez. It’ll be interesting to see the prices of magic for this season.
I was rewatching season 2 again, and in ASOTM Emma states that the power of the failsafe “feels like the oxygen is being sucked out of the air”. Regina says “Not the oxygen. The magic.” Maybe it’s been said before, but it has just struck me that the statement Emma made is very telling. Not only does she CONSCIOUSLY feel that magic is being sucked from the air, but also that it’s like being suffocated. The opposite of suffocation is, obviously, breathing. So, my question is, can we infer from that statement that Emma is UNCONCIOUSLY using magic all the time? Breathing is unconscious after all.