[Varian keeps casting worried glances Will's way. He doesn't know if his friend will hit a point where he'll let the disgust and anger slip in. He wouldn't be surprised if he did- he's done some pretty awful things. But at the moment there's only understanding, and that...helps. ]

Exactly. I um...I convinced Rapunzel to help me find the flower- we had to use this journal that had the map of the catacombs under the kingdom to find it and she was the only one who could get at it, being the princess and all. It was treason...to-to take the book, but she did it anyway. We got our way through and once I got to the flower I just...took it. I told her that I'd used her and escaped before the guards could find me. I knew she'd be in so much trouble and I just...didn't care.

[He was so focused on saving his dad that everything and everyone else just fell into the background. They were... expendable. ]

It didn't matter. The flower was dead. It did nothing. I knew I had to go to the only source of the sundrop's power that was left. And that was Rapunzel herself.