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* Then, there's the EstablishingCharacterMoment that follows the time skip. As opposed to the cheery, excitable child she was in the prologue, the trauma of losing her father has quickly turned Emily into a sullen and serious girl who hardly smiles at anything, despite her brother's best efforts to cheer her up.
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* This book shows a glimpse of Trellis's life under the Elf King. Book 2 already shows that he's been physically and emotionally abused, and has the threat of death and much more suffering hanging over his head the entire time but here, we get another, more subtle detail of abuse. His room, is incredibly empty.
** It looks like a normal room, with a bed and pillows with a desk, a bench, and a window, but it doesn't look like it belongs to a person, much less a ''prince''. It's deprived of basic entertainment or comfort, it doesn't even have elaborate designs or a smidge of personality (the bed doesn't even have blankets); these details are even more significant when you know by now how Kazu Kibuishi designs rooms, it's ''bound'' to be overspilling with random objects cluttered around. Trellis's room has no such things. Even the Elf King's room, who's technically dead at this point, has more personality. The emptiness was intentional. ''He's even oppressed in the false safety of his own room''.
** It looks like a normal room, with a bed and pillows with a desk, a bench, and a window, but it doesn't look like it belongs to a person, much less a ''prince''. It's deprived of basic entertainment or comfort, it doesn't even have elaborate designs or a smidge of personality (the bed doesn't even have blankets); these details are even more significant when you know by now how Kazu Kibuishi designs rooms, it's ''bound'' to be overspilling with random objects cluttered around. Trellis's room has no such things. Even the Elf King's room, who's technically dead at this point, has more personality. The emptiness was intentional. ''He's even oppressed in the false safety of his own room''.
