Blake and Shale, a three-year-old and four-year-old, give surprisingly mature advice to Koreesh and manage to get him out of h is suicidal depression. The advice they give can be borderline therapeutic, which is jarring coming from the mouths of two toddlers.
Cynder and Spyro are worried about the kidnapped hatchlings, the any urgency in the plot is lost because, for multiple chapters as the story focuses on various random scenarios, like the guardians and such in what is basically a poker game, Koreesh doing nice things with said kidnapped hatchlings, and Cynder and Spyro dealing with the blame for this incident and arguing over going on the quest or not, as well as Cynder's other unrelated trauma.
Trapped by Mountain Lions: Cynder's brother, Sycthe, shows up and attacks her for revenge for killing their parents as the Terror of The Skies does not affect the main plot at all. After a fight, he accepts it's not Cynder's fault pretty quickly and moves on from his long-seated desire for revenge. Bonus points for any scene with him and his girlfriend, which is completely unrelated to the main plot.
Spyro's mother dropped her eldest son Cyrus out of the sky at a young age when he could not fly over and over in order to teach him how to. Cyrus does so with his little brother Blake when he is still learning to fly; dropping him from a very high altitude without warning, scarring Blake. Although Cyrus does promise he will always catch him, this could be fatal if Cyrus fails to catch his brother even once and Blake hits the ground. On top of that, an experience like this could prove traumatizing to a child as young as Blake, who is three. This is all framed as being in the right by the story.
Brazin hits Cynder repeatedly out of revenge for what she did back when she was Terror of the Skies at first, but he later does so again after coming around and trying to slap sense into her and get her to realize it was not her fault. When Spyro moves to stop him, Cyrus intervenes and tells his brother to let Cynder, stating she is not responding to the Braizin's accusations correctly and deserves to be hit. The story insists that it's okay for others to beat each other up like this, despite the fact Cynder is also still going through trauma from her past and physical violence is borderline abusive. Characters regularly default to trying to hit each other during arguments, with Cynder even trying to hit Cyrus, a twelve-year-old, because of an argument in chapter 21.
