Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25355646-20150302181659/@comment-7526254-20150625140332

Here's my understanding of Victorian England. It is a land with magic, but nobody there knows about magic. Alice goes to WL for the first time and returns shortly after as a little girl. Some time later, she goes back to WL to prove its existence to her father. She returns many years later as an adult some time after "Hat Trick". She is put in an assylum for a year, probably the year before the curse. During the curse, the land is frozen for 28 years but noone notices. Time must also be frozen in WL because Anastasia and other characters appear not to have aged. A possible explanation for this is that Cora put a force feild over WL and VE because she wanted Alice to return after the curse. Somehow Will and Jefferson were not protected by the force feild and were brought to Storybrooke during the curse. This would explain how some WL characters were brought to Storybrooke while most of WL remained the same after the curse.