"...You thought the people in a place called 'The Snuggly Duckling' were scary?" Merlin said, still resisting the urge to laugh. He couldn't imagine anyone scary going to a place with that name.

"If your mother cared about you, she'd want you to be happy," Merlin said, feeling guilty even as he said it. Because the more he talked to Rapunzel, the more he thought that maybe her mother didn't care at all.