Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4764932-20130304035139/@comment-12.248.240.38-20130304205430

The way Cora said "being the Miller's Daughter" makes it sound like they are not related but that they do still have history. Perhaps Eva was a high class citizen and Cora was the daughter of a local miller who Eva's father trusted and knew for a long time. And so Cora and Eva were inseperable playmates when they were kids but as time grew them up Cora became more and more aware of her friend's high status and became jealous and in desperation began to boast of a talent that she did not posess. The boasting became rumor in hyperbole and soon swung out of control so that not even  Eva could prevent an investigation. At this point Rumple appears to offer young Cora aid and even though the impossible task is accomplished Eva ruins it by unwittingly revealing Cora to be a fake believing that truth would set things right. Cora however ends up mocked, her reputation destroyed and is known only as that Miller's Daughter. Angry, she turns back to Rumple to ask him to teach her magic for real and vowing to exact vengeance on her once upon a time friend.