Some time later, after Aurora had been released from her rope bonds, they still sat in the dark cell, pondering the issue. Unable to come up with any better ideas, Belle voiced her suggestion. "We could go to Rumplestiltskin for help. Make a deal with him." Mulan and Aurora gazed at her with matching expressions of distrust, but both knew they had no other options. "What can we give him, though?" Mulan asked. "We have nothing of value." "We have the Wraith's Medallion. Perhaps he shall have a use for it?" Aurora suggested. "Surely it wouldn't hurt to try." The three women looked at each other and knew there was no other way. They had to go to Storybrooke.
Going through a swirling portal with a regenerated bean on a pirate's ship was not an experience Cora would ever want to repeat. It was more uncomfortable and lopsided than falling through that Looking Glass into Wonderland. But here they were; the Land Without Magic at last. Although, if Cora was not mistaken it wasn't 'without magic' at all. But of course the cowardly crocodile would want it back, and she would do better with it. Might cause the Pirate some problems, but at least that meant she wouldn't have to deal with him. She smiled as she looked upon the stone-hewn town. All these new victims would be fun to play with.
The only thing that ruined her mood was the disgusting wave of magic that swept out of another curse-breaking kiss.