Carmen asks Ofelia why she brought so many books if they are traveling to the country, before looking at the book of fairy tales she has brought. Determined to fulfill its quest, the creature plucked out its right eye and laid it on the forest path. They grew as densely between the trees as an ocean of feathery fronds, from which gray-barked trunks emerged like creatures reaching up from a sunken world below.

Ofelia is awakened by the sound of the insect she saw earlier and watches as it climbs up the edge of the bed and towards her. Set in Spain during World War II, the story follows Ofelia, a little girl whose recently widowed mother has married a captain in Franco’s army.

The doctor responds with this line, suggesting that blind obedience is not something that everyone has an easy time doing, insulting the captain's fascist politics. First we see him cleaning the inside of a pocket watch, then shaving his face intently, then polishing his boots. Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun is an intriguing novelization of Guillermo del Toro’s beautiful and tragic fairy tale film Pan’s Labyrinth.

When she is lying in bed with her mother and the baby begins to act up in her mother’s stomach, Carmen asks Ofelia to tell the baby one of her stories, and Ofelia begins telling a fable.The Faun fed them with his tears to remind them of Moanna, as fairies tend to be quite forgetful creatures. Vidal finds her and shoots her, and Ofelia's own blood is spilled, which is enough to open the portal and bring her to her rightful place in the kingdom of the underworld.

Capitán, respectfully,” the son said, “if my father says he was hunting rabbits, he was hunting rabbits. Ferreiro has been working for the rebels, he is angered and suggests that the doctor ought to have obeyed him unquestioningly. Believing the mandrake root is a ridiculous superstition, she urges Ofelia to recognize that fairy tales are not real, and that life is more difficult than magic stories might suggest. They fought the very darkness Vidal served and admired, and he had come to the old forest to break them.As she becomes more immersed in the fantastical world upon which she has stumbled, Ofelia becomes less and less concerned with the requirements of the military world into which her mother is marrying. The eye, forever bearing witness to the old sculptor’s skills, lay on the wet ground for countless days and nights. His voice was as warm as the blankets on the bed and Ofelia wondered why her mother hadn’t fallen in love with a man like the doctor.