It sounded a lot like what Emma imagined the pre-industrial days were like, before they had factories to do everything, when people farmed their land and made all their own things -food and shelter and clothes. But with some added magic and tyranny for good measure. "I was never that great at school, even less when it came to homework." She hadn't graduated anyway, dropping out when she was sixteen and running away. Emma hadn't been the academic type and it wasn't like she'd had the encouragement of parents.
"Well, like you said, some people have their skills right." She really doubted, if her magic was as light as people said, she'd be overly comfortable using the things that Rumple and Regina used, purely because they were stowed in such dark intent, while healing and teleporting things came so naturally to her.
"I half want to try that and I half don't, because knowing my luck, you'd learn it instantly and just show me up. I was with another kid like that one time, always so nonchalant, always great at everything." And impossible to hate, because he was just so nice. Yeah, she could definitely see Garrett being the exact same.