Regina might have needed a minute to, ah, swipe underneath her eyes a bit. Find her voice too, that wasn't so riddled with that threat of tears. Because they'd been running two weeks already, Killian running amuck as the Dark One, nothing was looking all that great but she missed the pirate, missed him more than anything - and missed how things were before this curse ravaged their lives, all over again.
"It's not over but it's getting there," she snorted. "Hook unleashed the Dark Ones from the Underworld. We're supposed to swap places, all of us. Them out in the living world, us down below. He and I had a touching moment of nostalgia before he telekinetically choked me, then Robin and I banished Zelena to Oz."
Now she could use the Apprentice's Wand, how lovely. It was better to have than not, at least during these times. "Emma wants to take the darkness into herself, and wants me to kill her with Excalibur. It hasn't happened. I'm sure there'll be a twist."