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M.J. Daniels wrote:

Eskaver wrote: "#"nospoilers

Anyhow, he isn't dead because Regina just visited him laying in the shop. If he was dead, I doubt they would have a rotting corpse lying in the store.

The petals did fall off really fast though. I say that Blue must have punched him in the face a few times to cause that. XD Didn't the Apprentice cast a preservation spell on his body though? He wouldn't be a rotting corpse if that's the case. We'll if the rose dies, then it means that Rumple has died and the preservation would just be preserving a corpse. Just not rotten until the spell wears off.