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Cami b vaz wrote: Vinster!5 wrote: where did the snow queen go during the missing year?When Regina undid Pans curse did Ingrid back her backs and leave storybrooke or go back to the enchanted forest? Since that Ingrid didn't cone to Storybrook whif the first curse, she could have leave the town just like Emmaand Henry, couldn't she? (it's a question, I don't know if this was possible since that Neal didn't leave)

Neal, Hook, Tink, the Lost Boys, Ariel (and presumably the Darlings) all stayed in Storybrooke and went back, because they were present in Storybrooke when Pan cast his Curse. No one affected by the First Curse could leave. Emma, Henry and August were the only ones who could.

Then Belle sealed off Storybrooke, which essentially isolated it forever. The Darlings got in just in time, and then they were trapped.

So no one knows how Ingrid escaped, but she had to have done so BEFORE Pan arrived with the others. The Apprentice probably warned her, meaning she kept her memories, since she was already out of town when Regina undid her Curse.