It also sounds like Bae goes straight to FictionalLondon first and then NL.
Do we even know that London’s intended to be a fictional version? Bae’s destination was meant to be The Land Without Magic, I’d think that’s supposed to be the real one. Having the Darlings be real all along is quizzical, granted, but maybe the explanation for that will come when they finally clue us how our world knows versions of the stories of people that really existed in other lands. Or not. 😆