Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-5934324-20130325011804/@comment-5122449-20130405223959

Sure, he was a kid when the events happen, but he didn't have to write them as a kid. If I wanted to write about an event I witnessed or was privy to ten years ago, I could write it right now. August could've written it as a sort of record of their world for Emma; it was his responsibility to watch her after all. There is a huge gap in his history between abandoning Emma at the orphanage when he was a kid and waking up on a beach with a wooden leg. He could've written the book any time in those years and sent it to Mary Margurite or Mr. Gold for safe-keeping.

Honey, he could not write because I was not a witness to these stories, as opposed to long-lived Mushu, in a Healer's body.