Rootbound — The Kindness of Room Five, Page 4
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A two-panel comic page. The top panel shows a woman on a wall-mounted rotary phone in a dark greenhouse hallway while a man stands behind her. The bottom panel shows an elderly woman sitting at a kitchen table speaking on a handset. Visible dialogue, in reading order: Fern: Ida, who kept Room Five? Ida: The propagation keeper. Nell. Ida: She promised me a cutting.
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A two-panel comic page. The top panel shows a woman on a wall-mounted rotary phone in a dark greenhouse hallway while a man stands behind her. The bottom panel shows an elderly woman sitting at a kitchen table speaking on a handset.
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.