Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161205051618/@comment-5106672-20161206210724

Whoa, Hmcooper4, the way you described the price for Regina's wish (#2) is really flawless! And thematically very relevant with the current arc!

Anyway, it's true that we may have not seen the price for Queenie's wish yet, but I think sometimes the price for wishes can come in a more complicated, less direct way. Take Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree: we had three wishes there, two by Leopold and one by the Genie: #1 To free the Genie (price: the freed Genie killed Leopold); #2 to give the Genie the third wish (price: ?); #3 to always look upon Regina's face (price: trapped in the mirror). Wish #2 was instrumental in bringing about wish #3.

Now, Leopold said he only desired happiness for anyone who set foot in his kingdom – which was NOT a wish per se – but that means his subject were presumably happy, his reign was prosperous, and that was important to him. By becoming the Magic Mirror via wish #3, the Genie became one of the many tools Regina used to wreak havoc in Leopold's Kingdom, make his daughter miserable and undo the prosperity Leopold brought about for the subject. So, if the price for wish #1 was Leopold's death, the price for wish #2 was arguably the destruction of his legacy and what he held dear as a king, via the price for wish #3.