[Pardon him for a moment here where he has flashbacks about Zoso taunting him that Bae wasn't really his son -- even if Rumplestiltskin knows that not to be true. Bae is his. He's certain of it. Even so, he's a coward, and half afraid of the idea.]

Perhaps, though... with the way I have been changed by this curse, I fear that my blood may lead me to darker things.