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On an unrelated note, another piece of evidence towards time in the "New" Realms of Story running faster than time in LWM and the "Core" Realms of Story is the age discrepancy between Hope and Lucy.

In 7x02, Emma is pregnant with Hope (not showing, so presumably early on) and by 7x22, Hope is still a small infant (looks at most 12 months size-wise).

In the meantime, Henry proposes to Ella in 7x16 flashbacks and Lucy is a newborn in 7x10 flashbacks (at bare minimum 9 months later). By the time of the Coven casting their curse, Lucy is celebrating her 8th birthday.

Assuming Emma's pregnancy went to term (9 months), and taking into account the above factors and a gap between Hope's birth and the creation of the United Realms, I'm going to estimate that approximately one year has passed between 7x02 and the end of 7x22 in LWM "real-time", while 8+ years NEF-time passed in less than the same amount of time.