Umite Wax Markers and Candles
Umites are sprites that live in the rain-forest in hive-like colonies and make honey and wax like bees. Their wax is used to make candles and markers. If you write with a marker made of their wax, you can't wipe it off, and you can only see what you wrote in the light of properly enchanted candle made from this wax. Vanessa gives a set to Kendra, and they use them to write secret messages to each other as a plot element of the story. Patton Burgess used umite wax markers to write the Journal of Secrets in a secret fairy language and Kendra must use umite candles to read the book.
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Famous quotes containing the words wax and/or candles:
“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“how seasonably
leaf and blossom uncurl
and living things arrange their death,
while someone from afar off
blows birthday candles for the world.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)