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Quote #10
She walked toward it and sank up to her knees. She dropped the pad and charcoal and grabbed the waist of a tree which shivered in her arms and swayed as though it wished to dance with her. (5.460)
Pretty much everything on Isle des Chevaliers has a creepy way of coming alive in this book. In this passage, Jade grabs a tree and finds that it's like a person who wants to dance with her. Nature has a pretty awesome way of speaking back to the characters in this book, which helps remind us that trees are, like humans, living beings.