Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28486044-20160727075112/@comment-24573226-20160729032743

Cyrania de Bergerac wrote: I know that Cinderella's step-sisters use to cut their feet to get the shoe to fit and birds pecked out their eyes at the wedding, that was something not kept by modern fairy tales. You're putting me in the mood to watch Into the Woods again, the Bernadette Peters version.

On the OP's original point, I think that I always pretty much looked at it the way Spirit does, that it was a reference to Summer's death. I can't recall whether it's ever mentioned that Summer read bedtime stories to Ruby, just Yang. Somehow, though, I thought the line was a reference to Summer reading them to Ruby and this last one, her death, is the one that ends in misery.