Honestly, this is a rawer wound than Emma is letting on. It wasn't even that long ago that her mother wouldn't trust her to hold her baby brother because of her magic. That losing control and nearly hurting her father had earned her mother's fear and revilement. Emma can't quite imagine what it must be like, if she were in Snow's shoes. She just hopes that her reaction would be a little different. Instead of making her feel like a monster. Or trying to suck all the potential for darkness out of her before she was even born.

"They don't have a great history with magic," she decides on, and that is certainly not untrue. Considering all her parents have gone through at the behest of dark magic and curses, she can sort of see why it wouldn't be an exciting ability in their daughter. "It's fine. Can't be easy, especially when they don't get what it's like."