Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7526254-20170430003451/@comment-1581533-20180317195724

In my opinion this is how it went:

- Few months before the curse Wish Hook went to NEF and he and Gothel gave birth to Alice (7x07) - Little time passes in the old EF and the Wish Realm (like a few months) but 10 years pass in the NEF (because time flows faster). Because of this Wish Hook and Alice are 10 years older in 7x13. - Hook goes back to Wish Realm (possibly looking for a way to save Alice) but the curse is cast; Cora's spell freezes all realms in time, including NEF but not Wish Realm since it exists in a timeline with no curse. Because of Cora's spell, Wish Hook can't move to the NEF (or maybe he can, but because time is frozen and Alice can't move, he decides to go back to Wish Realm). He stays in Wish Realm for 28 years, until Emma goes to Storybrooke and time starts moving again. Because of this Hook has aged this many years.