Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20131211045616/@comment-24463571-20140217061212

While reading A Dance with Dragons, I snickered uncontrollably as a boy in an ancient tree watched an old woman cut off someone's head with a sickle. Held and Sickle referenced in the same paragraph!

That bit of stupidness aside, what is the symbolism behind the black box and the golden key? How did the box manage to end up in the Clockwork Doll? (Also, how did they (whoever did it) manage to fit Irregular in that box and then fit that inside the Clockwork Doll? Is he really small, or does he expand or something after being let out of the box? The Doll herself isn't that big, about the size of a human, so she couldn't just be huge enough to fit a human-sized box within her.) Does the golden key represent Wrath? What's the signifigance of that? Would that mean that at whatever time this conversation took place, Wrath was not awake?

Also, was there any kind of lead-up to the conversation about Allen in a box or was it like this:

In today's episode of "Adventures of Held and Sickle", the gods are walkng along, wondering what adventures they'll have today. Oh, look, there's a box! What could be inside? After the gods open it, they find a kid sleeping inside. Well, that's weird, so let's have a conversation about it!

Or did Sickle just pull a box out of nowhere and say "Look, I have a sleeping kid in here! This is entirely pertinent to the plot!"?

Also also, if Allen was asleep inside, it sounds the Irregular's whole experience in Regret Message was a dream. It seems he's been sleeping the whole time inside of the Clockwork Doll and when he's "reborn", he'll "awaken". Would this "awakening" possibly have anything to do with a sin awakening?