Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25733960-20171209163949/@comment-25926288-20171209230326

Or....Alice lied to spare Ella's feelings.

Timeline goes:

Rapunzel poisons Cecelia.

Marcus presumably gives up on Cecelia after a whole year of searching. Cecelia presumably dies.

Rapunzel traps Gothel.

Gothel has Alice.

It appears that Cecelia had to have died and Alice was nowhere to be around, or she lived and actually moved on.