- Azalea is dreaming about her mother, reliving the last conversation they had before the ball—it's a recurring dream, and it always feels so darn real.
- She wakes up, and then slips down to the ballroom. It's chilly in there, even though it's June; she dances for a little while, and then her sisters wake up and join her. But Mr. Pudding catches them dancing (again), so he locks the ballroom, even though he clearly feels badly about doing it.
- A couple weeks later, Azalea hears something tap-tapping in their bedroom—she finds a piece of the enchanted tea set, the sugar tongs, skittering around. They tend to bite, so the girls have nicknamed them the sugar teeth.
- Azalea grabs the sugar teeth, wondering what they're doing without the rest of the tea set. Come to think of it, she hasn't seen the tea set in a while, either—and since she's near the fireplace, she notices that one of the bricks there is uneven.
- And the brick has a half-moon etching—the symbol for a magic passage.