A memory washed over Regina, of her sitting alone in Granny's Diner when Robin had gone to New York, and how Swan had come to find her. A deeply wry smile, pained and self-knowing, curved the corners of her mouth when she recited softly, "You don't need a hope speech. What you need is a drinking buddy."

Regina glanced over toward the bar and Kitty and then back at Vax, "Does your world have tequila?"