The Golden Goose

In the fourth episode Mother Goose comes to riding a goose through a clear blue sky over the village of Pottingham NA E4·02:03:59. Brennan says it "looks like the gander, but it's obviously a totally different color" NA E4·02:04:39. Asked who she is, the goose answers "The goose, I should imagine!" NA E4·02:04:52. She says she is the goose that laid the golden egg NA E4·02:10:12.

In the fourth episode Timothy comes to in the sky riding on the back of a massive, shimmering golden goose, who says she is the goose that laid the golden egg and also gave a golden egg to a boy named Jack in another world NA E4·02:03:59 NA E4·02:10:12. She calls the Gander her other half, her shadow and her brother NA E4·02:06:29. She says "Wheresoever I am are times of peace and prosperity and wonder known" NA E4·02:11:36. She adds that wherever the Gander goes come the times of shadow NA E4·02:11:36. She tells Timothy the Jack in the world he goes to is not his son and describes that Jack's beanstalk story NA E4·02:10:38 NA E4·02:14:11. A tear of hers makes the book grant extra spells NA E4·02:18:08. The Wolf later says the Goose and the Gander cannot fly the same skies, and that the Goose's presence is faint and much disguised, and Alba says the Gander seeks his long lost twin, last seen far north in the land of giants NA E11·01:05:43 NA E14·00:17:28. When the Cloak of Stars goes wrong, the Golden Goose's voice answers the Gander's reflection with "Ah, brother." NA E15·02:07:19 NA E15·02:07:23

At the foot of the beanstalk the party finds her tied with five restraints on ten stakes, and she says "Hello." and "These things have a way of working out." NA E16·00:38:32 NA E16·00:38:44 NA E16·00:39:28. After the party cuts her free and she heals Pinocchio with a sixth-level Heal for 70 hit points, she flies them up with the egg, the harp and Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, and returns with a basket carrying Tomas, his brothers and Henry NA E16·01:22:47 NA E16·01:42:16 NA E16·02:01:29 NA E16·02:01:37. On the cloud she says "I suppose it's time to admit that this world has had some editing done to it" NA E17·00:07:33. She says she was placed in this chunk of story and stitched into this world, and that she was put here like "bait inside of a trap" NA E17·00:17:17. She says she was trapped in a story and needed to be rescued by the six of them NA E17·00:50:16. She tells Timothy "Your third wish will kill you." NA E17·00:26:27 She heals, raises cloud beds, gives Ylfa a blanket-sized feather as a good-luck charm, and casts Heroes' Feast in the morning NA E17·00:30:55 NA E17·00:42:10 NA E17·01:11:18. She says the Baba Yaga most respects courtesy, diligence and courage, and that the Wolf is with her now NA E17·01:20:57 NA E17·01:16:48.

At the Castle of the North Wind she greets the Gander, "Hello, brother!", and makes Timothy's third wish for his book back NA E17·01:23:14 NA E17·01:24:26. The Gander grants it and, Brennan narrates, feasts on the body of the Golden Goose; her last words to the party are "Run, dear boy." NA E17·01:25:28 NA E17·01:26:32 In the eighteenth episode her voice in Mother Goose's head asks what brought the times of shadow there NA E18·01:33:55. In the finale her voice calls the Gander "Brother" and asks what new story he would write in his own book NA E20·02:16:29.