The ink

In the fourteenth episode Mother Goose pores through tomes in the Snow Queen's libraries and finds one with an image drawn in ink of a hand moving through space, which gives her the same chill as looking into the Canonade NA E14·01:18:02 NA E14·01:18:48. Snow White shows her an illustration of an inkwell and says that with her own simple writing ink Timothy can rescue people into his book, but that with this ink and his book she believes truly anything is possible NA E14·01:19:37 NA E14·01:19:55 NA E14·01:20:42. Brennan says that combining the ink Mother Goose saw in The Lines Between with her book would give her the power of the Authors themselves NA E14·01:21:02.

In the fourteenth episode Snow White asks whether the fairies could get their hands on the ink, and later says the ink is not in this world but in the castle in The Lines Between NA E14·01:25:00 NA E14·01:27:08 NA E14·01:30:19. The fifteenth episode's recap says that the true book combined with the ink at the center of the Canonade would let Mother Goose write anything in the book, anything at all NA E15·00:02:45.

In the nineteenth episode Brennan's recap shows the Daughters of the Crown in a ritual, with the ink of the Inkwell surging forward as Snow White prepares to bend the power of the Authors and their true ink toward Scheherazade's true book NA E19·00:01:29. He says all magic in the party's worlds emanates from this central power, and that Pinocchio can feel destiny itself written in the ink NA E19·00:01:29. Brennan says Snow White raises her hand to control the ink surging forward from the Inkwell NA E19·00:06:00.

In the finale Brennan says the ink is swirling, malevolent and volatile, helix-ing and moving in a strange, unpredictable way NA E20·00:07:21. When the Turquoise-Haired Fairy looks up at it and pleads, the ink begins to move and a black hand, something from a truer, older world, emerges and attacks the party NA E20·00:37:04 NA E20·00:37:12 NA E20·00:37:25. Pib's knife, with true ink on it, flies through the air and strikes the hand of the Baba Yaga, which is the page the party gave her, and the ink spreads NA E20·02:01:05. Ally narrates a small piece of the true book and a small drop of ink finding each person, who ingests it, and Brennan says it rains ink and the spell works NA E20·02:02:09 NA E20·02:02:32.