Rootbound — The Kindness of Room Five, Page 5
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A two-panel comic page showing a phone conversation. The top panel features an elderly woman in a cozy, dimly lit room speaking on a rotary phone. The bottom panel shows a younger woman in a greenhouse hallway speaking on a wall-mounted phone while a man stands behind her; a pair of translucent, ghostly hands are visible watering a potted plant in the background. Visible dialogue, in reading order: Ida: After my first winter alone. Ida: She died before I collected it. Fern: She has kept watering it. Ida: Tell her I learned to grow again.
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A two-panel comic page showing a phone conversation. The top panel features an elderly woman in a cozy, dimly lit room speaking on a rotary phone. The bottom panel shows a younger woman in a greenhouse hallway speaking on a wall-mounted phone while a man stands behind her; a pair of translucent, ghostly hands are visible watering a potted plant in the background.
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.