Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-5679696-20141215164611/@comment-5679696-20141220013640

If you look closely, during the Queen of Hearts scene in which Cora casts the shield spell, the Dark Curse is arriving over a mass of water, from somehwere beyond that sea/river. That's why I assume Regina's kingdom, and therefore most of the EF, are located across water from Aurora's. Either that, or the location where Regina cast the Dark Curse is not in the EF.