"You might be my mom, but if you're trying to hurt anyone then you're hurting me, too. If you're just the Evil Queen, then you don't care about that part." He's guessing.

"Yeah, she's here. and Zelena. There were others but they left." And wow, he really wishes Emma were here because the four of them with magic against the Evil Queen had to be better than three. But that's going to have to work for now. That's about when he realizes he has squid ink in his room thanks to his dad and he keeps that in the back of his mind.

"It's not just people from our world here. It's people from all over the universe. Some places with magic, some places without. And you aren't in charge. No one in this mansion is."