"So he can think things at you?"

"Yeah. Helping me - catch up, and interpret situations I don't understand. He's already really helpful about it but it'd be easier to do - midstream, if he didn't have to take me aside for it."

"Seems reasonable," says Rolan.

Rapunzel nods.

"Yes. Well, basically - plants don't do different things for different people, but they can give different instructions on how to make them do it. That's why the song for my hair is in Coronan and rhymes and so on, that's not the only possible way to work my hair, it's just the one Gothel had and by the time I was picking up any details about it myself I was already used to hers. But it definitely does what it told you it does, even if you got different implementation details."

"Huh," says Rolan. "Interesting."

"It is interesting. How'd it tell you it's used?"

"If I wrap some of it around some of me and kiss it, then for as long as I stay close enough afterward, I can send some or all of my thoughts to whoever I want."

"And you want to carry it around with you and send thoughts to Rapunzel."

"Yes."

"You any good with plants or is it going to shrivel up and die if you're carrying it around?"

"Well, I'll ask the gardener how to take care of it, obviously."

"Some people just don't have green thumbs," says Ranae, "even if they follow instructions to the letter."

"I'm not going to let the plant shrivel up and die. I can always un-borrow it if it doesn't seem happy with me."

"Are plants happy?"

"Not literally, unless me or other people who've got plants thoroughly in them count, but I assume you mean if it droops or something?" Rapunzel asks Rolan.

"Yes. Figurative happiness."

"And you'll stop - thinking at Rapunzel if she wants?"

"Of course."

"Okay."

"It sounds like it'll be much easier than the etiquette lessons I had to take when I was a girl, frankly."