The golden ball

In the second episode a sphere-shaped hollow in Mother Goose's book is first just a hollow carved in the book NA E2·01:24:15. When Gerard says "gold", Brennan says he remembers an object of that size from his life, a golden ball dropped by a princess into a pond full of lily pads NA E2·01:24:15.

In the third episode, in a vision, Brennan says Elody throws a golden ball and Gerard experiences drowning NA E3·02:11:34. In the fifth episode Gerard says that when he first died his wife threw him a golden sphere, and that an empty hole like it appeared when he reached into the book NA E5·01:17:36. Scheherazade replies that a palace had visions of a golden sphere within some tapestries NA E5·01:57:43.

In the ninth episode the party watches a memory in which a golden ball rolls into the pool, and Gerard, a frog, pushes it up from the muck and rolls it back to the young Elody, who calls it very noble NA E9·01:22:08 NA E9·01:28:26 NA E9·01:28:29. Elody calls the ball an heirloom from her mother, and Brennan says it was set at the head of her golden mace NA E9·01:27:34 NA E9·01:37:30. Gerard puts the golden ball into Mother Goose's book, and Brennan says his Frog Prince story glows and its ink moves into his chest, and later that he fully absorbed his book when he put the ball in NA E9·01:38:30 NA E9·01:39:53 NA E9·02:26:05.

In the fourteenth episode Brennan describes Elody from the first world in golden armor with a kite shield and a golden ball as her mace head NA E14·01:03:45. In the eighteenth episode Brennan says the book holds Gerard's golden ball NA E18·01:29:59. In the finale Elody cries "I don't like my story!" and slams the golden ball into the hand that emerges, and each blow shows a vision of Gerard's human form and of her as a girl by the pond NA E20·00:51:19 NA E20·00:51:23.