Thread:Nightlily/@comment-3010035-20170401062752/@comment-91424-20170401120123

Hi!

Actually, it is never stated in "Mother" that Tink had left the EF by then. All Cora says, is that she "had an encounter with a certain wingless fairy who told her of a failed attempt to connect Regina with her soul mate." Regina asks her mother if she met Tinker Bell, and Cora confirms it, and says that Tink told her. Cora never says where she met Tink; for all we know, it could have been in the EF :-)

But anyway, "Page 23" should definitely take place after "Mother". We know this, because "Mother" takes place before "Lacey" (where Maid Marian is cured of the disease; in "Lacey", the Sheriff of Nottingham describes her as being sick - "Well, he's all married up now, I hear, to some sickly little tart that no one else would want."), and "Lacey" takes place before Snow and Charming meet in "Snow Drifts" (and "Snow Falls"). "Page 23", on the other hand, takes place after Snow and Charming meet (because it takes place after "Heart of Darkness", an episode where Snow and Charming have already met; in "Page 23", a Black Knight who is killed by the Evil Queen in "Heart of Darkness", is still alive).