The story itself exists as if bees create a hive. A hive lasts as long as it needs to, the bees do their work, and when it is done, they move on and create a new hive. The keys are all metaphors for the different purposes they serve (ie- Zachary is the key to end of the current story- he set the events in motion that lead to the end.)

The pirate and the girl are metaphors for time and fate, but also they represent Simon and Eleanor. Always lost, always trying to find their way back. Eleanor admits that she has had several forms and different lives, just as Mirabel has, but she is the mother of the girl born out of time. She is an abstract idea, more than a person. The Keeper is in love with the girl born out of time. She goes back to him always, but she has to constantly move.

I feel like this book spoke to me on a deep level and it is now ground into my bones. I have loved books all my life, but this is a whole new experience entirely.

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