The Briars

In the first episode Brennan tells Rosamund she wakes unable to move, with briars growing out of her mouth and nostrils and filling the room, after 100 years of slumber NA E1·00:05:06. The base of the briar is rooted deep in her body, and the thorns tug internally when she moves NA E1·00:07:12. When she thanks the thorns for keeping her safe and says it is time to leave, the Briars answer "Please, no, don't leave. It's not safe" NA E1·00:16:05 NA E1·00:15:19. They tell her that giants, wizards and witches cannot touch her in this tower and ask her to stay, and Brennan says the thing she most feels from them is fear NA E1·00:16:15 NA E1·00:16:43.

In the first episode the Briars say they will keep Rosamund safe, and part to show a long tendril holding the spindle, but she leaps through the window as the thorns drag across her, each thorn bringing another whisper of "please stay" NA E1·00:18:00 NA E1·00:18:04 NA E1·00:20:33. Brennan says Rosamund then goes forward through the briars for days, weeks and months, and Siobhan describes her with her dress torn and a bow she has fashioned from thorns NA E1·00:22:21 NA E1·00:23:40.

In the fourth episode Rosamund wakes once more in her bed with the Briars growing from her mouth, thicker and sharper NA E4·01:20:47 NA E4·01:22:22. They ask what she is doing and say "We cannot. We must keep you safe. The world comes to destroy the princess" NA E4·01:23:33 NA E4·01:23:09. Brennan says they look afraid of her new strength and retreat from her, though they will not grant her passage out NA E4·01:23:51. A wave of mice drives the briars back NA E4·01:25:13.

In the nineteenth episode Rosamund dies, and Brennan says briars seep out of the wound in her body and pull Thumbelina's brain from her skull, so that Thumbelina dies and Rosamund comes back at one hit point NA E19·01:24:27 NA E19·01:24:59 NA E19·01:25:24. The Briars then snarl, "Her Highness is in danger. Put them all to sleep. Rip them apart!", and Brennan says the squeezing of thorns pumps her heart for her NA E19·01:26:18 NA E19·01:26:41. The party sees Sleeping Beauty carried by briars surrounding her NA E19·01:54:19. Siobhan describes an arrow turning into a nest of briars that swallows Snow White whole, and Brennan says the briars vanish and Snow White is gone NA E19·01:55:23 NA E19·01:55:33.