Okay, this is obviously getting weirder and more confusing as it continues. It's on the tip of her tongue to ask why Rumpelstiltskin would give her the dagger, when the woman gives her name.
That throws her for a moment. She recalls talking to Gold about that woman, shortly after helping Henry with retrieving his father's cup. She hadn't really realized who she had been to him until later after the curse though. There was one thing she remembered well about that conversation, the woman was dead. "Belle." There's a bit of quiet disbelief in her voice. "I thought you were...well, you know, dead?"
To be honest, she wouldn't really put it past Regina to lie. But you would have thought they would have found her by now in Storybrooke if she was alive and living there.
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That throws her for a moment. She recalls talking to Gold about that woman, shortly after helping Henry with retrieving his father's cup. She hadn't really realized who she had been to him until later after the curse though. There was one thing she remembered well about that conversation, the woman was dead. "Belle." There's a bit of quiet disbelief in her voice. "I thought you were...well, you know, dead?"
To be honest, she wouldn't really put it past Regina to lie. But you would have thought they would have found her by now in Storybrooke if she was alive and living there.