Rootbound — The Kindness of Room Five, Page 9
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Transcript
A two-panel comic strip showing a woman and an older man in a dimly lit potting shed. In the top panel, they are both handling a potted fern. In the bottom panel, the woman waters the fern with a brass watering can while the man watches. Visible dialogue, in reading order: Fern: Ida says she learned to grow again. Fern: You can stop watching now.
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A two-panel comic strip showing a woman and an older man in a dimly lit potting shed. In the top panel, they are both handling a potted fern. In the bottom panel, the woman waters the fern with a brass watering can while the man watches.
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.