The Times of Shadow

In the first episode the briars around Rosamund's tower say "None who have come have been allowed to pass. The times of shadow now pass in the Neverafter." and promise that no giants, wizards or witches can touch her there NA E1·00:16:15. Lord Bandlebridge says the times of shadow fell upon Shoeberg, but its people banded together and it is one of the few thriving metropolises left in the Neverafter NA E1·01:14:56. Ylfa asks "who isn't in the time of shadows?", and Pib says that in the times of shadows they have done many things to survive NA E1·01:52:36 NA E1·01:53:29.

In the fourth episode Cinderella says the times of shadow did not simply come to the Neverafter, that the Neverafter in some ways began when they began, and that people like Rosamund are not supposed to find out how bad a deal they got NA E4·01:05:07. The turquoise-haired fairy says she and the other fairies are working as hard as they can to fix the times of shadow and the Neverafter NA E4·01:51:25. The Golden Goose says that wheresoever her brother the Gander goes, the times of shadow come, and she cannot say whether they are synonymous or one causes the other NA E4·02:11:36.

In the ninth episode Turquina says the princesses are trying their hardest to stop the fairies from ending the times of shadow, and that the times of shadow have lingered far too long NA E9·00:48:52 NA E9·01:06:32. She says the fairies believe some force the Wicked Fairy beheld is causing them to stay NA E9·01:06:32. In the twelfth episode Snow White tells the party that, by the wording of their wish, they carry the key to ending the times of shadow NA E12·00:55:46. In the seventeenth episode the Golden Goose says the Times of Shadow and Happily Ever After move through the realms of fairy tale over and over again, and that the Times of Shadow are bad around there NA E17·00:16:34 NA E17·00:27:18.

In the eighteenth episode Brennan shows visions in which the times of shadow start as the fear of the times of shadow starting, with kings marshaling armies because the times of shadow are approaching NA E18·01:34:12. In the finale epilogue Brennan asks how the people of Hapley would change their own story if they were not fated by an Author nor meant to suffer the endless nightmare of the Times of Shadow NA E20·02:16:41.