"I always figured it must be a big deal for people with families," Emma admitted with a shrug, pursing her lips slightly before taking another sip of her cocoa. Holidays had never meant much to her, but she remembered spending Thanksgiving with her friends here in the mansion five years ago like it was yesterday. It had been a milestone of sorts, both for her and for Henry. The two of them had agreed that they felt that was pretty much what Thanksgiving should be: lots of people and way too much food, not nearly as many formalities as you always saw on TV.

"As for helping, absolutely. On a practical level, we'll need people to be storing supplies for the future - we're putting a couple of caches together, but it won't be enough. As for finding the sword... the Mirror we're sending to talk to the Queen is mine. We think we can sway her to work with us -- she helped us out some in the future when the glass came down. Do you know of any other Mirrors we might be able to enlist? Even names of those we need to avoid at all costs would be good to have on hand. A lot of them died or vanished before we got to know them."