Rootbound — An Invitation to Autumn, Page 10
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A two-panel comic set in a stone potting shed. A luminous, swirling ribbon of light floats from a flowering apple tree in a wooden barrel out through an open window. In the second panel, the ribbon has dissipated into golden sparks in the sky. Visible text, in reading order: Fern: Ida says she can wait. Wren: He waited to hear that. Fern: So did I.
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A two-panel comic set in a stone potting shed. A luminous, swirling ribbon of light floats from a flowering apple tree in a wooden barrel out through an open window. In the second panel, the ribbon has dissipated into golden sparks in the sky.
About this chapter
White petals lead Fern and Wren into Room Six, where an apple tree flowers without fruit for a dead gardener's promise to Ida. Fern finds a compatible neighbour and hand-pollinates the blossoms, but refuses to promise a harvest she cannot control. Ida's willingness to wait releases the keeper. Days later a fruitlet forms, while soil creeps beneath Room Seven.