Entwined The Supernatural Quotes

Without realizing it, Azalea has just sworn on silver, which is an oath enforced by magic—so no wonder she gets goose bumps. We imagine Azalea's mom knows what she is doing when she makes her daughter take this oath, and we can guess at how desperate she must be to try to do something to help her family since her time to live is officially limited.

This deep, warm, flickery kind of magic is something Azalea feels when she dances with her mother or her sisters. It's not the same kind of magic as the enchanted tea set that (kinda creepily) can move around on its own and snap at you—no, it's a different kind of magic, one that doesn't have a name (which makes it difficult to talk about, unfortunately for us).

So you look for a certain stamp on a brick, rub something silver on it, and it opens into a magic passage. Got it—thanks, Mr. Bradford. Azalea has never heard this before, but now that she knows to keep an eye out for the D'Eathe mark on bricks within the palace, she manages to find the hidden passage inside her bedroom that leads to Keeper's pavilion. So in a sense, this whole thing is Mr. Bradford's fault.

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.

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?

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.

Keeper, wearing the shape of Azalea's mom, works some creepy magic here. Maybe it's not as rare or impressive as capturing souls, but it's still scary stuff. These silver-ornament-people are still solid enough to restrain Azalea, push her around, and knock her to the ground.

We're a little concerned that the High King D'Eathe (a.k.a. Keeper) has this whole other magical power that nobody knows about until now. It's pretty darn scary to think about him running around impersonating people whose belongings he gets his hands on.

So now we've experienced a few different types of magic through Azalea's adventures—there's the cold tingly feeling of Swearing on Silver, and the heat of her temper (which we're guessing is like blood magic). And now we get a glimpse into the deep magic of the soul, which is warm and yet still elusive.

Azalea brings up a good point: what do you call the rare kind of magic that's fueled by love and can bring someone back from the brink of death? It's connected to the soul, and to love, and to… well… we can't really put it under a microscope and study it. That seems to be the point of this kind of magic: it arises when needed, and further attempts to categorize it just won't work.