Rootbound — The Kindness of Room Five, Page 2
By Suha · Published
Transcript
A two-panel comic page. In the top panel, a woman peers through a doorway into a potting shed where a plant pot on a wooden workbench is overflowing with water. The bottom panel is a close-up of the same terracotta pot, saturated and dripping into a saucer. Visible dialogue, in reading order: Fern: That pot is watering itself. Fern: And drowning in the kindness.
Image description
A two-panel comic page. In the top panel, a woman peers through a doorway into a potting shed where a plant pot on a wooden workbench is overflowing with water. The bottom panel is a close-up of the same terracotta pot, saturated and dripping into a saucer.
About this chapter
Beyond the Mother Bed, Fern opens the door marked Five and finds a fern drowning in an unfinished kindness. With Wren and Ida, she helps a dead propagation keeper loosen her grip on a promise, repots the plant and delivers it at last. Breakfast restores the living before fresh petals appear beneath Room Six.