Might have been option d, all of the above. The Circles sound like they'd be a scary place for a kid to go. Maybe... it was scary for a parent to see their child be taken there, too.
( Softly, that, pensive, although she has a certain degree of what a dick still cycling in her head before she offers, a little more lightly, ) Hey, maybe I'll write him a letter and inform him that the correct title is 'Chief Captain Boss,' make sure he gets it right.

( Anders. Things that she has heard about and was horrified by and yet... they've forgiven Regina. She's pretty sure Anders crimes could pale in comparison to the acts of the Evil Queen. )

Right. ( How can she say this? With a quiet, cheeky kind of cheer, obviously. )
Well, you hang out with a spirit of Compassion, and I'm a dirty, dirty hypocrit. ( She's gotten very good at saying this stuff lightly. )

But, hey, sometimes I have good days. I just... wonder. If you start forgiving yourself and eventually you start crossing lines, or something. How do you forgive yourself for hurt you did for other people? That's not my forgiveness to give. Forgiving other people for wrongs is... I mean, it's not easier, but it's not like you're letting yourself off a hook that you probably have a place on, either.