Interesting Bae fell into Victorian-era London. That is at most 180 years ago. I always thought Gold took the powers of The Dark One about 300 years ago. Okay interesting to get a clear(er) sense of years involved; half as many as I thought.
Unless Baelfire fell through a time-warp and “crossed time and space” as Rumple said he did in “The Return.” If Rumple designed the curse to locate Bae in A Land Without Magic, as it seem Bae came through into our world, then Rumple must’ve expected to find Bae alive and well, despite the significant passage of time in this realm. If that’s the case, then I wonder if Rumple also knew Neal was stuck in perpetual adolescence, not aging, while in NL, on the run, so to speak.
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"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy