Rootbound — An Invitation to Autumn, Page 4
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Two-panel comic. Top panel: A woman kneels by a wall-mounted rotary phone in a long, dimly lit greenhouse corridor at night, while a man stands behind her. White blossoms are scattered on the floor. Bottom panel: An elderly woman sits in a chair indoors at night, speaking into a desk-mounted rotary phone. Visible text, in reading order: Fern: Ida, did you know this tree? Ida: The old kitchen gardener kept it. Ida: He promised the first apple to me.
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Two-panel comic. Top panel: A woman kneels by a wall-mounted rotary phone in a long, dimly lit greenhouse corridor at night, while a man stands behind her. White blossoms are scattered on the floor. Bottom panel: An elderly woman sits in a chair indoors at night, speaking into a desk-mounted rotary phone.
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.