"A gilded cage, then." Like the one she'd made in Storybrooke. And magic was definitely involved if distances were measured in time rather than space. "Has anyone taken charge of preparing for the inevitable crises?"

If they hadn't, Regina would, and if they had, then she would...help. Protecting these people and this place, putting their needs before her own were the closest she could come to making amends, and if she ever wanted to break out of this karmic cycle, she had a lot of amends to make.