Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-9186670-20171014025424/@comment-25733960-20171014224734

DatNuttyKid wrote: Chameleon-Guy wrote: https://twitter.com/AdamHorowitzLA/status/919265926846980096

Interesting conversation. They will explain later in the season Emma's absence. lol, why, she was here... I mean, she was in the episode. ...how exactly did they not explain it? NEF was caught up in a curse. Emma wasn't in the NEF. Boom, explained. The point is... if Emma and Henry constantly chat through a magic mirror, then at some point Emma will noticed Henry is gone, because the curse was cast

So, the question is, why aren't Emma/Hook looking for Henry? One might think they would go to the NEF and realize what happened (because everyone is gone) and track him/them in our world, which would be quite easy considering he still goes by Henry Mills

This also leads to the question, if there is a writer called Henry Mills, who wrote a story about a curse and a town called Storybrooke somewhere in Maine, how come the people in the real Storybrooke haven't heard about it? Sure, the book was a failure, but that doesn't mean Emma, David, Snow, etc can't find out  through the  internet. HH is not isolated from the world, like SB was back in season 1. There are no magical town lines here.

The thing is (and this is a long shot) but it's likely that something happened to SB after Emma and Hook went there in 7x02 and before the new curse what cast.