she has established something of an alliance with beast since his advancement to the position of sheriff; while this generally establishes itself as a quid-pro-quo arrangement of mutual favors, it remains to be seen if any darker reasons lie behind it. totenkinder eventually reveals the nature of her spies in the empire. she installed a magical brush in the woodcarver guild's tools which allows her to look through the eyes of any of the carved beings whose eyes are painted using that brush and to see what they see. among her unwitting spies is geppetto's pet owl. she has also been able to apply this spell upon fabletown's zephyr spies, as per prince charming's request. this allowed for members of the fables' magical community to see what spies saw, in order to make up for the zephyrs' lack of experience with solid beings.