How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Everything sparkled in bits, catching highlights in glisters as she moved. Even the path beneath her feet. She turned to a glass-spun tree on her left. Silver ornaments glowed along the delicate silver leaves—glimmering glass plums. Azalea touched one. Its edging glittered as it swayed. Next to the ornament, strings of pearls swathed each branch in swooping arcs. (7.40)
Whoa dude—the magic passageway is really magical on the inside. Pearls don't grow on trees in the real world, that's for sure, and glass plums seem like a poor way for trees to reproduce by putting their seeds out into the world. The whole place seems like the inside of one of those shake-it-up glass balls filled with little snowflakes and charming little scenes.
Quote #5
"Until earlier this year, I was hardly more than brick and mortar. Something happened to the magic object—it was partially broken. Broken enough that I have my magic back, at least in part […] I need you to find the magic object, and destroy it," said Keeper. (14.116-118)
It wouldn't be a good story about magic if there weren't a quest involved. And here we see the quest revealed: Keeper wants the girls to find the magic object related to his confinement, and destroy it so that he can be free. It seems like a harmless enough request, right? But then, is anything to do with magic ever really harmless?
Quote #6
"My father told me about the High King […] I never believed that he could actually capture souls. I always thought it was just rumor. Souls. That's the deep sort of magic." (24.40)
The High King could apparently do all kinds of magic, like enchanting the palace to capture people in vines and curtain ties, but capturing souls is a different type of magic entirely. Mr. Bradford seems to have a little more knowledge about magic than Azalea does, because he knows enough to differentiate between the types of magic and to be a little skeptical about the soul-capturing part. Maybe if Azalea had had more knowledge (and more skepticism) she wouldn't have been drawn in by Keeper's ploy as easily.