"Moments of peril are usually when we do meet each other," because that was when people were panicking, or thrown together with some kind of job, or just ended up fighting back to back. Most of them just ended up meeting people, fighting together and making some kind of friendship work.
At the word mage though, she instantly thought of Garrett and... "You're the guy from Garrett's world, right?" She hadn't heard a lot about the people from Garrett's world, he'd told her a little about his lover there after she and Killian came back from their Dark One curse, she knew bits and pieces about his siblings, but Emma got the impression that things weren't exactly easy in Garrett's world.
Half way because it was an oppressive shit hole that she wanted to blow up too, but she didn't need to live there. "I have magic, is that counts, I don't know if I qualify to be a mage though."