Rootbound — An Invitation to Autumn, Page 8
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A two-panel comic page showing a woman in a dimly lit stone room tending to a small tree in a wooden barrel. The tree is covered in white apple blossoms. A luminous, smoky ribbon of light swirls around the woman's arm and the base of the tree. She uses a small brush to touch the center of a blossom. Visible text, in reading order: Fern: May I? Fern: A little help from a neighbour.
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A two-panel comic page showing a woman in a dimly lit stone room tending to a small tree in a wooden barrel. The tree is covered in white apple blossoms. A luminous, smoky ribbon of light swirls around the woman's arm and the base of the tree. She uses a small brush to touch the center of a blossom.
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.